Mammals and how they care for their young, sentence 4

A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jelly bean; it crawls into its mother's pouch, drinks milk there for months, and only then hops out into the world.

Who acts: newborn kangaroo, elephant · What happens: be, crawl, drink, hop · To what, where: size, pouch, milk, world

This is a sentence of the lesson «Mammals and how they care for their young» of the world 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 (newborn kangaroo, elephant), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 kangaroo	det
2	newborn	newborn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kangaroo	amod
3	kangaroo	kangaroo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 size	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 size	cop
5	about	about	ADV	_	7 size	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 size	det
7	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 bean	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bean	det
10	jelly	jelly	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bean	compound
11	bean	bean	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 size	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 crawls	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 crawls	nsubj
14	crawls	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 size	parataxis
15	into	into	ADP	_	19 pouch	case
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mother	nmod:poss
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pouch	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 mother	case
19	pouch	pouch	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 crawls	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 drinks	punct
21	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 crawls	conj
22	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 drinks	obj
23	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 drinks	advmod
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 months	case
25	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 drinks	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 hops	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 hops	cc
28	only	only	ADV	_	29 then	advmod
29	then	then	ADV	_	30 hops	advmod
30	hops	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 crawls	conj
31	out	out	ADV	_	34 world	advmod
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 world	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 world	det
34	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hops	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 size	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a newborn kangaroo	the size			of a jelly bean; about property	tree rules
2	crawl	present	elephant		elephant's mother's pouch			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into pouch=Destination
3	drink	present	elephant not said here	milk	there	month		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient
4	hop	present	elephant not said here		the world	then		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into world=Destination

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:world:075-mammals-and-their-young.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): R6-punct-agree ×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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