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title: In the bushfires of 2019 and 2020 hot, dry forests burned so fast th… — The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, emus, walla… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the bushfires of 2019 and 2020 hot, dry forests burned so fast that many animals could not escape; the fires were reported to have killed or harmed huge numbers of animals, and zoo hospitals such as Taronga and Australia Zoo treated burnt koalas and kangaroos. Who acts: hot dry forests, many anim
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# The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, emus, wallabies and dingoes, sentence 15

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In the bushfires of 2019 and 2020 hot, dry forests burned so fast that many animals could not escape; the fires were reported to have killed or harmed huge numbers of animals, and zoo hospitals such as Taronga and Australia Zoo treated burnt koalas and kangaroos.

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**Who acts:** hot dry forests, many animals, zoo hospitals · **What happens:** burn, not escape, report, kill, harm, treat · **To what, where:** bushfires, fires, huge numbers, burnt koalas

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, emus, wallabies and dingoes» 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 (hot dry forests, many animals, zoo hospitals), 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:15
# text = In the bushfires of 2019 and 2020 hot, dry forests burned so fast that many animals could not escape; the fires were reported to have killed or harmed huge numbers of animals, and zoo hospitals such as Taronga and Australia Zoo treated burnt koalas and kangaroos.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×3, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bushfires	bushfire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
5	2019	2019	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nummod
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	2020	2020	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	conj	_	_
8	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nsubj
12	burned	burn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux	_	_
28	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	xcomp	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=28:cc
30	harmed	harm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	conj	_	_
31	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
37	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	hospitals	hospital	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
39	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	41	case	_	_
40	as	as	ADP	IN	_	39	fixed	_	_
41	Taronga	Taronga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=45:nsubj
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=41:cc
43	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	Zoo	Zoo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
45	treated	treat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	acl:relcl	_	_
46	burnt	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	47	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=47:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
47	koalas	koala	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obj	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=47:cc
49	kangaroos	kangaroo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	conj	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct
```

## 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 | **burn** | past | hot dry forests |  |  | the bushfires  2019 |  | fast *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bushfire=Location |
| 2 | **not** **escape** | could | many animals |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **report** | past · passive |  | the fires |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **kill** | to-infinitive · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **harm** | participle |  | huge numbers of animals |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus number=Experiencer |
| 6 | **treat** | past | zoo hospitals such Taronga and Australia Zoo *not said here* |  | burnt koalas and kangaroos |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent koala=Recipient |
| 7 | **burn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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): R1-cc-next ×3, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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