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title: The koala looks like a teddy bear that sleeps all day, and it really… — Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus · tree and pragmatics
description: The koala looks like a teddy bear that sleeps all day, and it really does rest up to about 20 hours, because its only food, eucalyptus leaves, has little energy and poisons that take hard work to digest. Who acts: koala, teddy bear, only food, poisons. A sentence of the lesson «Koalas, wombats, Tasm
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# Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus, sentence 1

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The koala looks like a teddy bear that sleeps all day, and it really does rest up to about 20 hours, because its only food, eucalyptus leaves, has little energy and poisons that take hard work to digest.

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**Who acts:** koala, teddy bear, only food, poisons · **What happens:** look, sleep, rest up, have, take, digest · **To what, where:** little energy, hard work

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus» 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 (koala, teddy bear, only food, poisons), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:104-koalas-wombats-tasmanian-devils-and-the-platypus.lesson:1
# text = The koala looks like a teddy bear that sleeps all day, and it really does rest up to about 20 hours, because its only food, eucalyptus leaves, has little energy and poisons that take hard work to digest.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 104-koalas-wombats-tasmanian-devils-and-the-platypus.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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	koala	koala	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	teddy	teddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sleeps	sleep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	really	really	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:case
20	about	about	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
24	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	eucalyptus	eucalyptus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
32	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
33	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	poisons	poison	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	_
37	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
38	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	_
39	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	digest	digest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	acl	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | the koala |  |  |  |  | like a teddy bear | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **sleep** | present | a teddy bear |  |  |  | day |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **rest up** | present · do-support | koala |  |  |  | hour |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present | koala's only food and eucalyptus leaves | little energy and poisons |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Patient |
| 5 | **take** | present | poisons | hard work |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme |
| 6 | **digest** | to-infinitive | poisons *not said here* | hard work *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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): R5-strong ×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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