Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos, koalas, wombats, kiwis, sentence 12

The laughing kookaburra is a big kingfisher whose family groups laugh together at dawn and dusk to mark territory; it eats snakes, lizards, insects and mice.

Who acts: laughing kookaburra, family groups, kookaburra · What happens: laugh, be, mark, eat · To what, where: big kingfisher, territory, snakes

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 (laughing kookaburra, family groups, kookaburra), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 kookaburra	det
2	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 kookaburra	amod
3	kookaburra	kookaburra	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kingfisher	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 kingfisher	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 kingfisher	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kingfisher	amod
7	kingfisher	kingfisher	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	10 groups	nmod:poss
9	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 groups	compound
10	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 laugh	nsubj
11	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 kingfisher	acl:relcl
12	together	together	ADV	_	11 laugh	advmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 dawn	case
14	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 laugh	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 dusk	cc
16	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dawn	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 mark	mark
18	mark	mark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 laugh	advcl
19	territory	territory	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 mark	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 eats	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 eats	nsubj
22	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 kingfisher	parataxis
23	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 eats	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 lizards	punct
25	lizards	lizard	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 snakes	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 insects	punct
27	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 snakes	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 mice	cc
29	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 snakes	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 kingfisher	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	gerund					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	the laughing kookaburra	a big kingfisher			tree rules
3	laugh	present	family groups		dawn	together property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	mark	to-infinitive	family groups not said here	territory			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent territory=Destination
5	eat	present	kookaburra	snakes and lizards and insects and mice			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Patient

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:12.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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