--- title: On hot days koalas hug tree trunks, which are cooler than the air, t… — Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus · tree and pragmatics description: On hot days koalas hug tree trunks, which are cooler than the air, to lose heat, and koalas have fingerprints very like a person's. Who acts: koalas, tree trunks. A sentence of the lesson «Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dep --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/104-koalas-wombats-tasmanian-devils-and-the-platypus/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/104-koalas-wombats-tasmanian-devils-and-the-platypus/) / 6 # Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus, sentence 6 On hot days koalas hug tree trunks, which are cooler than the air, to lose heat, and koalas have fingerprints very like a person's. **Who acts:** koalas, tree trunks · **What happens:** hug, be, lose, have · **To what, where:** tree trunks, heat, fingerprints 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 (koalas, tree trunks), 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:6 # text = On hot days koalas hug tree trunks, which are cooler than the air, to lose heat, and koalas have fingerprints very like a person's. # 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 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 4 koalas koala NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obl 5 hug hug VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 trunks trunk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 9 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 cooler cool ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 acl:relcl _ _ 12 than than ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 lose lose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 18 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 koalas koala NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 23 fingerprints fingerprint NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 24 very very ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 25 like like ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 28 's 's PART POS _ 27 case _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hug** | present | koalas | tree trunks | | | day | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trunk=Co-Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | tree trunks | | | | | than the air; cool *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **lose** | to-infinitive | koalas *not said here* | heat | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Eventuality | | 4 | **have** | present | koalas | fingerprints | | | | like a person | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fingerprint=Patient | 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:6`. **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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