--- title: The quokka is a small wallaby from islands near Perth whose face sha… — The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, emus, walla… · tree and pragmatics description: The quokka is a small wallaby from islands near Perth whose face shape looks like a smile; visitors may not touch or feed quokkas, because fed quokkas can get ill and lose their fear of people, and can be fined for it. Who acts: quokka, face shape, visitors, fed quokkas. 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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 (quokka, face shape, visitors, fed quokkas), 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:12 # text = The quokka is a small wallaby from islands near Perth whose face shape looks like a smile; visitors may not touch or feed quokkas, because fed quokkas can get ill and lose their fear of people, and can be fined for it. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 quokka quokka NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 wallaby wallaby NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 islands island NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 9 near near ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Perth Perth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 15 like like ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 smile smile NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 visitors visitor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 20 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 touch touch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 feed feed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 25 quokkas quokka NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 because because SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 28 fed fed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 quokkas quokka NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ _ 32 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 xcomp _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 lose lose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 35 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nmod _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 41 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 42 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 43 aux:pass _ _ 43 fined fine VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 conj _ _ 44 for for ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obl _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | the quokka | a small wallaby | | islands near Perth | | | tree rules | | 2 | **look** | present | face shape | | | | | like a smile | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **not** **touch** | may | visitors | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **feed** | infinitive | visitors *not said here* | quokkas | | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quokka=Recipient | | 5 | **get** | can | fed quokkas | | | | | ill *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **lose** | infinitive | fed quokkas *not said here* | wallabies's fear of people | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Eventuality | | 7 | **fine** | can · passive | fed quokkas *not said here* | | | | | for quokka | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient» | | 8 | **fear** | | wallabies *= wallaby* | people | | | | | nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent of=patient | 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:12`. **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): R8-pos-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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