--- title: Dingoes are wild dogs that came to Australia with people thousands o… — The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, emus, walla… · tree and pragmatics description: Dingoes are wild dogs that came to Australia with people thousands of years ago; they howl rather than bark, and a fence more than 5000 kilometres long keeps them away from sheep farms. Who acts: Dingoes, wild dogs, people, fence. 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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 (Dingoes, wild dogs, people, fence), 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:14 # text = Dingoes are wild dogs that came to Australia with people thousands of years ago; they howl rather than bark, and a fence more than 5000 kilometres long keeps them away from sheep farms. # 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): R2-punct-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Dingoes dingo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 11 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 14 ago ago ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 howl howl VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 18 rather rather ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 20 cc _ _ 19 than than ADP IN _ 18 fixed _ _ 20 bark bark VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=17:punct 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 fence fence NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 25 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 27 advmod _ _ 26 than than ADP IN _ 25 fixed _ _ 27 5000 5000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:nmod:unmarked 29 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 24 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 30 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=17:conj 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:obj 32 away away ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 33 from from ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 sheep sheep NOUN NN _ 35 compound _ _ 35 farms farm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **is a** | present | Dingoes | wild dogs | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **come** | past | wild dogs | | | Australia | | with people; ago *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to australia=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **howl** | present | people | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **bark** | infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **keep** | present | a fence | people | | | | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | 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:14`. **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): R2-punct-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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