--- title: Male kangaroos «box» by pushing with their arms and kicking with the… — The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, emus, walla… · tree and pragmatics description: Male kangaroos «box» by pushing with their arms and kicking with their back legs while leaning on their tails, to win rank, and the kicks can be dangerous. Who acts: Male kangaroos, kicks. 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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 (Male kangaroos, kicks), 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:8 # text = Male kangaroos «box» by pushing with their arms and kicking with their back legs while leaning on their tails, to win rank, and the kicks can be dangerous. # 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 ×1 1 Male male ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 kangaroos kangaroo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 4 box box VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 by by SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 pushing push VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 kicking kick VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 16 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 17 while while SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 18 leaning lean VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 win win VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 25 rank rank NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 kicks kick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 cop _ _ 32 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **box** *in a quote* | present | Male kangaroos | | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **push** | gerund | Male kangaroos *not said here* | | | | | with kangaroos's arms | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **kick** | gerund | Male kangaroos *not said here* | | | | | with kangaroos's back legs | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with leg=Instrument | | 4 | **lean** | gerund | Male kangaroos *not said here* | | | kangaroos's tails | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tail=Location | | 5 | **win** | to-infinitive | Male kangaroos *not said here* | rank | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rank=Eventuality | | 6 | **is** | can | the kicks | | | | | dangerous *property* | 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:8`. **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 ×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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