Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos, koalas, wombats, kiwis, sentence 14

The emu is the second tallest bird, up to about 1.9 metres, and runs at around 50 kilometres per hour; the father sits on the eggs for about 8 weeks, hardly eating, and in the 1932 Emu War the emus mostly won.

Who acts: emu, father, emus · What happens: be, run, sit, eat, win · To what, where: second tallest bird, 50 kilometres, eggs, 1932 Emu War

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 (emu, father, emus), 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	2 emu	det
2	emu	emu	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bird	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bird	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bird	det
5	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 bird	amod
6	tallest	tall	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 bird	amod
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 metres	punct
9	up	up	ADP	_	13 metres	case
10	to	to	ADP	_	9 up	fixed
11	about	about	ADV	_	12 1.9	advmod
12	1.9	1.9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 metres	nummod
13	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bird	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 runs	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 runs	cc
16	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bird	conj
17	at	at	ADP	_	20 kilometres	case
18	around	around	ADV	_	19 50	advmod
19	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 kilometres	nummod
20	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 runs	obl
21	per	per	ADP	_	22 hour	case
22	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 kilometres	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 sits	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 father	det
25	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sits	nsubj
26	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bird	parataxis
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 eggs	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 eggs	det
29	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sits	obl
30	for	for	ADP	_	33 weeks	case
31	about	about	ADV	_	32 8	advmod
32	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	33 weeks	nummod
33	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sits	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 eating	punct
35	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	36 eating	advmod
36	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 sits	advcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 won	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 won	cc
39	in	in	ADP	_	43 War	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 War	det
41	1932	1932	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	43 War	compound
42	Emu	Emu	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 War	compound
43	War	War	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 won	obl
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 emus	det
45	emus	emu	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 won	nsubj
46	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	47 won	advmod
47	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bird	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 bird	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the emu	the second tallest bird				tree rules
2	run	present	the emu not said here		50 kilometres per hour			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at kilometre=Trajectory
3	sit	present	the father		the eggs	week		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on egg=Location
4	eat	gerund	the father not said here				hardly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	win	past	the emus		the 1932 Emu War		mostly property	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in war=Eventuality

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:14.

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, R5-strong ×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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