--- title: A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jelly bean; it crawls into… — The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, emus, walla… · tree and pragmatics description: A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jelly bean; it crawls into the pouch and grows there for months on milk, and a mother can have a tiny baby, a joey in the pouch and an older one at foot all at once. Who acts: newborn kangaroo, bean, mother. 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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 (newborn kangaroo, bean, mother), 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:7 # text = A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jelly bean; it crawls into the pouch and grows there for months on milk, and a mother can have a tiny baby, a joey in the pouch and an older one at foot all at once. # 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 ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 newborn newborn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 kangaroo kangaroo NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 about about ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 jelly jelly NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 bean bean NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 crawls crawl VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 15 into into ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 pouch pouch NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 20 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 joey joey NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 pouch pouch NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 41 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 43 amod _ _ 43 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ _ 44 at at ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ _ 46 all all ADV RB PronType=Tot 48 advmod _ _ 47 at at ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 30 obl _ _ 49 . . 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 newborn kangaroo | the size | | | | of a jelly bean; about *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **crawl** | present | bean | | | the pouch | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into pouch=Destination | | 3 | **grow** | present | bean *not said here* | | | milk; there | month | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on milk=Location | | 4 | **have** | can | a mother | a tiny baby | | | | | tree rules | 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:7`. **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 ×1, R3-conj-first ×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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