--- title: Tasmanian devils are the biggest meat-eating marsupials alive; they… — Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus · tree and pragmatics description: Tasmanian devils are the biggest meat-eating marsupials alive; they screech and growl to sort out who eats first, and their strong jaws crunch whole carcasses, bones and fur included. Who acts: Tasmanian devils, marsupials, strong jaws. 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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 (Tasmanian devils, marsupials, strong jaws), 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:9 # text = Tasmanian devils are the biggest meat-eating marsupials alive; they screech and growl to sort out who eats first, and their strong jaws crunch whole carcasses, bones and fur included. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Tasmanian tasmanian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 devils devil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 5 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 9 amod _ _ 6 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 eating eat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 amod _ _ 9 marsupials marsupial NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 10 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 screech screech VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 growl growl VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 sort sort VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:acl 18 out out ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 ccomp _ _ 21 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 20 advmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 jaws jaw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 crunch crunch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 28 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 carcasses carcass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 34 included include VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 29 acl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | gerund | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | Tasmanian devils | the biggest eating marsupials | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **screech** | present | marsupials *= marsupial* | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **growl** | present | marsupials *= marsupial* *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **sort out** | to-infinitive | marsupials *= marsupial* *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **eat** | present | | | | | | first *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **crunch** | present | marsupials's strong jaws | whole carcasses and bones and fur | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carcass=Patient | | 8 | **include** | participle | | whole carcasses and bones and fur *not said here* | | | | | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: 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:9`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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