Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos, koalas, wombats, kiwis, sentence 15

The southern cassowary has a dagger-like claw up to about 12 centimetres on each foot; it avoids people, but fed cassowaries lose their fear and can kick if fed or cornered, so it must be watched from a distance and never fed.

Who acts: southern cassowary, cassowary, fed cassowaries, people · What happens: have, avoid, lose, kick, feed, corner · To what, where: dagger like claw, people, fear, cassowary

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 (southern cassowary, cassowary, fed cassowaries, people), 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 cassowary	det
2	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cassowary	amod
3	cassowary	cassowary	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 claw	det
6	dagger	dagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 claw	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 dagger	punct
8	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 claw	amod
9	claw	claw	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
10	up	up	ADV	_	14 centimetres	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 centimetres	case
12	about	about	ADV	_	13 12	advmod
13	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 centimetres	nummod
14	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 claw	nmod
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 foot	case
16	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	17 foot	det
17	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 centimetres	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 avoids	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 avoids	nsubj
20	avoids	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 has	parataxis
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 avoids	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 lose	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 lose	cc
24	fed	fed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 cassowaries	amod
25	cassowaries	cassowary	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 lose	nsubj
26	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 has	conj
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 fear	nmod:poss
28	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lose	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 kick	cc
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 kick	aux
31	kick	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 lose	conj
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 fed	mark
33	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 kick	advcl
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 cornered	cc
35	cornered	corner	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 fed	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 watched	punct
37	so	so	ADV	_	41 watched	advmod
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 watched	nsubj:pass
39	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 watched	aux
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 watched	aux:pass
41	watched	watch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 has	conj
42	from	from	ADP	_	44 distance	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 distance	det
44	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 watched	obl
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 fed	cc
46	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	47 fed	advmod
47	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 watched	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	the southern cassowary	a dagger like claw	to 12 centimetres on each foot	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Patient
2	avoid	present	cassowary	people		vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent people=Location
3	lose	present	fed cassowaries	people's fear		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Eventuality
4	kick	can	fed cassowaries not said here			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
5	feed a condition, not said to happen	participle	fed cassowaries not said here			vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
6	corner	participle	fed cassowaries not said here			tree rules
7	watch	must · passive		cassowary	from a distance	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
8	not feed	participle				vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
9	fear		people			nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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:15.

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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