--- title: Wombats make cube-shaped droppings, shaped by stiffer and softer par… — Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus · tree and pragmatics description: Wombats make cube-shaped droppings, shaped by stiffer and softer parts of the gut; cubes do not roll off rocks and logs, so they work as signposts, and the scientists who found this won an Ig Nobel Prize in 2019. Who acts: Wombats, cubes, scientists. 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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 (Wombats, cubes, scientists), 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:8 # text = Wombats make cube-shaped droppings, shaped by stiffer and softer parts of the gut; cubes do not roll off rocks and logs, so they work as signposts, and the scientists who found this won an Ig Nobel Prize in 2019. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Wombats wombat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 cube cube NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 5 shaped shape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 6 droppings dropping NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 shaped shape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 9 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 stiffer stiff ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 amod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 12 softer soft ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:amod 13 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 gut gut NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 cubes cube NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 19 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 roll roll VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 22 off off ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=23:cc 25 logs log NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 30 as as ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 signposts signpost NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=29:cc 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 36 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 37 nsubj _ _ 37 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 38 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 37 obj _ _ 39 won win VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 40 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 41 Ig Ig PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 42 Nobel Nobel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 Prize Prize PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 2019 2019 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 39 obl _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | Wombats | shaped droppings | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dropping=Product | | 2 | **shape** | participle | | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **shape** | participle | | shaped droppings *not said here* | | | | by stiffer parts of the gut | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 4 | **not** **roll off** | present · do-support | cubes | rocks and logs | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Agent | | 5 | **work** | present | wombats *= wombat* | | | | | as signposts | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.attribute PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent as signpost=Attribute | | 6 | **find** | past | the scientists | this | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Topic | | 7 | **win** | past | the scientists | a Ig Nobel Prize | | 2019 | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Eventuality | 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:8`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, 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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