Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos, koalas, wombats, kiwis, sentence 13

The Tasmanian devil is the largest surviving meat-eating marsupial, about the size of a small dog, with a bone-crushing bite; a face tumour disease has killed many, so disease-free groups are kept as insurance.

Who acts: Tasmanian devil, face tumour disease · What happens: survive, eat, be, crush, kill, keep · To what, where: largest surviving eating marsupial, many, disease free groups

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 (Tasmanian devil, face tumour disease), 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 devil	det
2	Tasmanian	tasmanian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 devil	amod
3	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 marsupial	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 marsupial	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 marsupial	det
6	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 marsupial	amod
7	surviving	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 marsupial	amod
8	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eating	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 meat	punct
10	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 marsupial	amod
11	marsupial	marsupial	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 size	punct
13	about	about	ADP	_	15 size	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 size	det
15	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 marsupial	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 dog	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 dog	det
18	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 dog	amod
19	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 size	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bite	punct
21	with	with	ADP	_	26 bite	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 bite	det
23	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 crushing	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 bone	punct
25	crushing	crush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 bite	amod
26	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 marsupial	nmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 killed	punct
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 disease	det
29	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 disease	compound
30	tumour	tumour	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 disease	compound
31	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 killed	nsubj
32	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 killed	aux
33	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 marsupial	parataxis
34	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 killed	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 kept	punct
36	so	so	ADV	_	42 kept	advmod
37	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 groups	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 disease	punct
39	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 groups	amod
40	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 kept	nsubj:pass
41	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 kept	aux:pass
42	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 killed	parataxis
43	as	as	ADP	_	44 insurance	case
44	insurance	insurance	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 kept	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 marsupial	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	survive	gerund				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	gerund				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	the Tasmanian devil	the largest surviving eating marsupial and the size of a small dog	with a crushing bite	tree rules
4	crush	gerund				vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	kill	present · perfect	a face tumour disease	many		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Theme
6	keep	present · passive		disease free groups	as insurance	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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:13.

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): R5-strong ×2, 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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