--- title: Kangaroos hop with springy tendons that store energy like a pogo sti… — The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, emus, walla… · tree and pragmatics description: Kangaroos hop with springy tendons that store energy like a pogo stick, so hopping fast costs them hardly more energy than hopping slowly. Who acts: Kangaroos, springy tendons, hopping. A sentence of the lesson «The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, emus, wallabies and dingoes» of the biology course --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/103-the-australian-walkabout-kangaroos-emus-wallabies-dingoes/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, e…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/103-the-australian-walkabout-kangaroos-emus-wallabies-dingoes/) / 5 # The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, emus, wallabies and dingoes, sentence 5 Kangaroos hop with springy tendons that store energy like a pogo stick, so hopping fast costs them hardly more energy than hopping slowly. **Who acts:** Kangaroos, springy tendons, hopping · **What happens:** hop, store, cost · **To what, where:** energy, more energy, kangaroos 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 (Kangaroos, springy tendons, hopping), 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:5 # text = Kangaroos hop with springy tendons that store energy like a pogo stick, so hopping fast costs them hardly more energy than hopping slowly. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Kangaroos kangaroo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 hop hop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 springy springy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 tendons tendon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 store store VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 like like ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nmod 11 pogo pogo NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 15 hopping hop VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj 16 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ _ 17 costs cost VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 iobj _ _ 19 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 20 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 21 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 21 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 22 than than SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 23 hopping hop VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 24 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **hop** | present | Kangaroos | | | | | with springy tendons | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with tendon=Theme | | 2 | **store** | present | springy tendons | energy | | | | like a pogo stick | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme | | 3 | **hop** | gerund | | | | | | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **cost** | present | hopping | more energy | kangaroos *= kangaroo* | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme they=Beneficiary energy=Value | | 5 | **hop** | gerund | hopping *not said here* | | | | | slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:5`. **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): 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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