--- title: A kangaroo is a living pogo stick: springy tendons in its back legs… — The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, emus, walla… · tree and pragmatics description: A kangaroo is a living pogo stick: springy tendons in its back legs store energy at every landing, so it bounces along fast for very little effort, and a joey peeps out of its mother's pouch to watch. Who acts: kangaroo, springy tendons, energy, joey. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kangaroo, springy tendons, energy, joey), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:103-the-australian-walkabout-kangaroos-emus-wallabies-dingoes.lesson:1 # text = A kangaroo is a living pogo stick: springy tendons in its back legs store energy at every landing, so it bounces along fast for very little effort, and a joey peeps out of its mother's pouch to watch. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 103-the-australian-walkabout-kangaroos-emus-wallabies-dingoes.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 kangaroo kangaroo NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 pogo pogo NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 springy springy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 tendons tendon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 appos _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 14 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 15 store store VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl _ _ 16 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 19 det _ _ 19 landing landing NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 bounces bounce VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 24 along along ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 23 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 26 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 very very ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 effort effort NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:obl 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 joey joey NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 peeps peep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 35 out out ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 37 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod:poss _ _ 39 's 's PART POS _ 38 case _ _ 40 pouch pouch NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 acl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a kangaroo | a pogo stick | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **store** | present | springy tendons in stick's back legs *not said here* | energy | | every landing | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent energy=Theme at landing=Location | | 3 | **bounce** | present | energy | | | | | for little effort; along, fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **peep out** | present | a joey | joey's mother's pouch | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pouch=Theme | | 5 | **watch** | to-infinitive | a joey *not said here* | joey's mother's pouch *not said here* | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:103-the-australian-walkabout-kangaroos-emus-wallabies-dingoes.lesson:1`. **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 ×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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