--- title: Wombats are strong, heavy marsupials that dig long burrows, and the… — Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus · tree and pragmatics description: Wombats are strong, heavy marsupials that dig long burrows, and the mother's pouch faces backwards so soil does not get in while she digs. Who acts: Wombats, heavy marsupials, pouch, soil. A sentence of the lesson «Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus» of the biology course of Mova's p --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus, sentence 7 Wombats are strong, heavy marsupials that dig long burrows, and the mother's pouch faces backwards so soil does not get in while she digs. **Who acts:** Wombats, heavy marsupials, pouch, soil · **What happens:** be, dig, face, not get in · **To what, where:** long burrows 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 (Wombats, heavy marsupials, pouch, soil), 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:7 # text = Wombats are strong, heavy marsupials that dig long burrows, and the mother's pouch faces backwards so soil does not get in while she digs. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Wombats wombat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 marsupials marsupial NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 parataxis _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 dig dig VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 10 burrows burrow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 pouch pouch NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 faces face VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 18 backwards backward ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 so so SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 20 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 24 in in ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 25 while while SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 digs dig VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Wombats | | | | | strong *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **dig** | present | heavy marsupials | long burrows | | | | | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent burrow=Theme | | 3 | **face** | present | the mother's pouch | | | | | backward *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **get in** | present · do-support | soil | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **dig** | present | soil | | | | | | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:7`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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