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title: Koalas eat almost only eucalyptus leaves, which are tough, low in en… — What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitti… · tree and pragmatics
description: Koalas eat almost only eucalyptus leaves, which are tough, low in energy and slightly poisonous and need special gut bacteria to digest, so they rest or sleep up to about 20 hours a day and depend completely on their forest. Who acts: Koalas, eucalyptus leaves, special gut bacteria. A sentence of th
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# What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitting in, sentence 17

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Koalas eat almost only eucalyptus leaves, which are tough, low in energy and slightly poisonous and need special gut bacteria to digest, so they rest or sleep up to about 20 hours a day and depend completely on their forest.

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**Who acts:** Koalas, eucalyptus leaves, special gut bacteria · **What happens:** eat, be, need, digest, rest up, sleep · **To what, where:** eucalyptus leaves, energy, special gut bacteria

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitting in» 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 (Koalas, eucalyptus leaves, special gut bacteria), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:001-what-a-habitat-is.lesson:17
# text = Koalas eat almost only eucalyptus leaves, which are tough, low in energy and slightly poisonous and need special gut bacteria to digest, so they rest or sleep up to about 20 hours a day and depend completely on their forest.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 001-what-a-habitat-is.lesson
# annotation = 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 ×3
1	Koalas	koala	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	eucalyptus	eucalyptus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	tough	tough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	slightly	slightly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	gut	gut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	bacteria	bacteria	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	digest	digest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:acl
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	rest	rest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	sleep	sleep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
31	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	about	about	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod:unmarked	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	depend	depend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
40	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
41	on	on	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | Koalas | eucalyptus leaves |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | eucalyptus leaves |  |  |  |  | tough *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | eucalyptus leaves *not said here* |  |  | energy |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | eucalyptus leaves *not said here* |  |  |  |  | slightly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **need** | present | Koalas *not said here* | special gut bacteria |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **digest** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | special gut bacteria *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **rest up** | present | Koalas *= koala* |  |  |  | hour |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **sleep** | present | Koalas *= koala* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **depend** | present | Koalas *= koala* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on Koalas's forest; completely *property* | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on forest=Theme |

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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.

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**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 ×3. **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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