Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos, koalas, wombats, kiwis, sentence 4

Red kangaroos are the largest marsupials, can stand taller than a man and hop at over 50 kilometres per hour in bursts; their springy tendons make hopping cheap in energy, and a newborn joey is about the size of a jellybean.

Who acts: Red kangaroos, springy tendons, newborn joey · What happens: be, stand, hop, make · To what, where: largest marsupials, 50 kilometres, size

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 (Red kangaroos, springy tendons, newborn joey), 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	Red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kangaroos	amod
2	kangaroos	kangaroo	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 marsupials	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 marsupials	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 marsupials	det
5	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 marsupials	amod
6	marsupials	marsupial	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stand	punct
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 stand	aux
9	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 marsupials	conj
10	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 stand	xcomp
11	than	than	ADP	_	13 man	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 man	det
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 taller	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hop	cc
15	hop	hop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 stand	conj
16	at	at	ADP	_	19 kilometres	case
17	over	over	ADV	_	18 50	advmod
18	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 kilometres	nummod
19	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hop	obl
20	per	per	ADP	_	21 hour	case
21	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 kilometres	nmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 bursts	case
23	bursts	burst	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hop	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 make	punct
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 tendons	nmod:poss
26	springy	springy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tendons	amod
27	tendons	tendon	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 make	nsubj
28	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 marsupials	parataxis
29	hopping	hop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 make	advcl
30	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 hopping	xcomp
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 energy	case
32	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 cheap	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 size	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 size	cc
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 joey	det
36	newborn	newborn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 joey	amod
37	joey	joey	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 size	nsubj
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 size	cop
39	about	about	ADV	_	41 size	advmod
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 size	det
41	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 make	conj
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 jellybean	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 jellybean	det
44	jellybean	jellybean	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 size	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 marsupials	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Red kangaroos	the largest marsupials			tree rules
2	stand	can	Red kangaroos not said here			tall property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hop	present	Red kangaroos not said here		50 kilometres per hour	in bursts	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at kilometre=Trajectory
4	make	present	kangaroo's springy tendons				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
5	hop	gerund	kangaroo's springy tendons not said here			cheap property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is a	present	a newborn joey	the size		of a jellybean; about 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:4.

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 ×1, 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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