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title: Out of hundreds of kinds of eucalyptus each koala eats only a few, c… — Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus · tree and pragmatics
description: Out of hundreds of kinds of eucalyptus each koala eats only a few, choosing less poisonous and more watery leaves, so zoos outside Australia grow eucalyptus plantations or fly in fresh leaves. Who acts: koala, zoos. A sentence of the lesson «Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus» of the
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# Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus, sentence 5

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Out of hundreds of kinds of eucalyptus each koala eats only a few, choosing less poisonous and more watery leaves, so zoos outside Australia grow eucalyptus plantations or fly in fresh leaves.

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**Who acts:** koala, zoos · **What happens:** eat, choose, grow, fly · **To what, where:** few, hundreds, poisonous leaves, eucalyptus plantations, fresh leaves

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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, zoos), 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:5
# text = Out of hundreds of kinds of eucalyptus each koala eats only a few, choosing less poisonous and more watery leaves, so zoos outside Australia grow eucalyptus plantations or fly in fresh leaves.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Out	out	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	eucalyptus	eucalyptus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	koala	koala	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	choosing	choose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
16	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
17	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
20	watery	watery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:amod
21	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
24	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
25	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
28	eucalyptus	eucalyptus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	plantations	plantation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | each koala | a few |  | hundreds of kinds of eucalyptus |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent few=Patient |
| 2 | **choose** | gerund | each koala *not said here* | poisonous leaves |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | infinitive | zoos outside Australia | eucalyptus plantations |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location plantation=Theme |
| 4 | **fly** | present | zoos outside Australia *not said here* |  |  | fresh leaves |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in leaf=Location |

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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, R8-pos-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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