--- title: The emu is Australia's biggest bird; it cannot fly, runs at about 50… — The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, emus, walla… · tree and pragmatics description: The emu is Australia's biggest bird; it cannot fly, runs at about 50 kilometres per hour, booms from a throat sac, and the father sits on the eggs for about eight weeks, hardly eating or drinking. Who acts: emu, kick, father. 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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 (emu, kick, father), 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:9 # text = The emu is Australia's biggest bird; it cannot fly, runs at about 50 kilometres per hour, booms from a throat sac, and the father sits on the eggs for about eight weeks, hardly eating or drinking. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 emu emu NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ _ 7 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 about about ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 19 per per ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obl 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 booms boom VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 23 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 throat throat NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 sac sac NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 32 on on ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 35 for for ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 about about ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 nummod _ _ 38 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 eating eat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:conj 42 or or CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 drinking drink VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 41 conj _ _ 44 . . 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 | the emu | Australia's biggest bird | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **fly** | can | kick | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **run** | present | kick *not said here* | | | 50 kilometres per hour | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at kilometre=Trajectory | | 4 | **boom** | present | kick *not said here* | | | a throat sac | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **sit** | present | the father | | | the eggs | week | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on egg=Location | | 6 | **eat** | gerund | the father *not said here* | | | | | hardly *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **drink** | gerund | the father *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. 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