--- title: Go into the dark nocturnal room and your eyes slowly find a bilby wi… — Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus · tree and pragmatics description: Go into the dark nocturnal room and your eyes slowly find a bilby with huge ears sniffing about and a sugar glider sailing from branch to branch on flaps of skin, while the platypus hunts in its tank with its eyes shut. Who acts: you, eyes, bilby, sugar glider. 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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 (you, eyes, bilby, sugar glider), 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:2 # text = Go into the dark nocturnal room and your eyes slowly find a bilby with huge ears sniffing about and a sugar glider sailing from branch to branch on flaps of skin, while the platypus hunts in its tank with its eyes shut. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 into into ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 nocturnal nocturnal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 8 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 10 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 bilby bilby NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 17 sniffing sniff VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 acl _ _ 18 about about ADV RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 glider glider NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 23 sailing sail VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 acl _ _ 24 from from ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 branch branch NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 branch branch NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 flaps flap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 while while SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 platypus platypus NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 hunts hunt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 tank tank NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 with with ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ _ 43 shut shut ADV RB _ 36 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=42:advmod 44 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | the dark nocturnal room | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **find** | infinitive | your eyes | a bilby and a sugar glider | | | | with huge ears; slowly *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bilby=Topic | | 3 | **sniff about** | gerund | a bilby and a sugar glider *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **sail** | gerund | a sugar glider *not said here* | | | branch | | to branch; on flaps of skin | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from branch=Trajectory | | 5 | **hunt** | present | the platypus | | | skin's tank with tank's eyes | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in tank=Location | 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:2`. **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, 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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