Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos, koalas, wombats, kiwis, sentence 1

Most Australian mammals are marsupials, whose tiny babies finish growing in a pouch: the red kangaroo, the koala, the wombat and the Tasmanian devil are all pouch mammals.

Who acts: Most Australian mammals, tiny babies, red kangaroo · What happens: be, finish, grow · To what, where: marsupials, pouch, pouch mammals

This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos, koalas, wombats, kiwis» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Most Australian mammals, tiny babies, red kangaroo), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 mammals	amod
2	Australian	Australian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mammals	amod
3	mammals	mammal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 marsupials	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 marsupials	cop
5	marsupials	marsupial	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 marsupials	punct
7	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	9 babies	nmod:poss
8	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 babies	amod
9	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 finish	nsubj
10	finish	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 marsupials	acl:relcl
11	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 finish	xcomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 pouch	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 pouch	det
14	pouch	pouch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 growing	obl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 kangaroo	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 kangaroo	det
17	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 kangaroo	amod
18	kangaroo	kangaroo	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 mammals	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 koala	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 koala	det
21	koala	koala	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 kangaroo	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 wombat	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 wombat	det
24	wombat	wombat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 kangaroo	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 devil	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 devil	det
27	Tasmanian	Tasmanian	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 devil	compound
28	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wombat	conj
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 mammals	cop
30	all	all	ADV	_	32 mammals	advmod
31	pouch	pouch	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 mammals	compound
32	mammals	mammal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 marsupials	parataxis
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 marsupials	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Most Australian mammals	marsupials			tree rules
2	finish	present	tiny babies				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	grow	gerund	tiny babies not said here		a pouch		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pouch=Location
4	is a	present	the red kangaroo and the koala and the wombat and the Tasmanian devil	pouch mammals		all property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:079-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand.lesson:1.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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