--- title: A sugar glider has a skin flap between its front and back legs and g… — Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus · tree and pragmatics description: A sugar glider has a skin flap between its front and back legs and glides from tree to tree; it looks like a flying squirrel but is a marsupial that evolved the same trick separately. Who acts: sugar glider, glider, marsupial. 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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 (sugar glider, glider, marsupial), 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:14 # text = A sugar glider has a skin flap between its front and back legs and glides from tree to tree; it looks like a flying squirrel but is a marsupial that evolved the same trick separately. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 glider glider NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 flap flap NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 between between ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 9 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 10 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 back back ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 13 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 glides glide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 23 like like ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 flying fly VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 amod _ _ 26 squirrel squirrel NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 marsupial marsupial NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 31 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 32 evolved evolve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 36 separately separately ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **have** | present | a sugar glider | a skin flap | | | | between glider's front legs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flap=Patient | | 2 | **glide** | present | a sugar glider *not said here* | | | tree to tree | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from tree=Trajectory | | 3 | **look** | present | glider | | | | | like a flying squirrel | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **fly** | gerund | | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | glider *not said here* | a marsupial | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **evolve** | past | a marsupial | the same trick | | | | separately *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location trick=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:104-koalas-wombats-tasmanian-devils-and-the-platypus.lesson:14`. **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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