Mammals and how they care for their young, sentence 8
Marsupials, such as kangaroos and koalas, carry their tiny newborns in a pouch.
Who acts: Marsupials · What happens: carry · To what, where: tiny newborns, pouch
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 (Marsupials), 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 | Marsupials | marsupial | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 carry | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 kangaroos | punct |
| 3 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 5 kangaroos | case |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 3 such | fixed |
| 5 | kangaroos | kangaroo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Marsupials | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 koalas | cc |
| 7 | koalas | koala | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 kangaroos | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Marsupials | punct |
| 9 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 newborns | nmod:poss |
| 11 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 newborns | amod |
| 12 | newborns | newborn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 carry | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 pouch | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 pouch | det |
| 15 | pouch | pouch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carry | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present | Marsupials such kangaroos and koalas | marsupials's tiny newborns | a pouch | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent newborn=Value in pouch=Location |
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:8.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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