--- title: Kangaroos find walking backwards very hard, and a popular story says… — Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies,… · tree and pragmatics description: Kangaroos find walking backwards very hard, and a popular story says that is why they are on Australia's coat of arms, as a sign of going forward. Who acts: Kangaroos, popular story, that, sign. 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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 (Kangaroos, popular story, that, sign), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals.lesson:15 # text = Kangaroos find walking backwards very hard, and a popular story says that is why they are on Australia's coat of arms, as a sign of going forward. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals.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 ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Kangaroos kangaroo PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 2 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 walking walk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 obj _ _ 4 backwards backwards ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 very very ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 popular popular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 13 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 15 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 ccomp _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl:relcl _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 's 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 as as ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:appos 28 of of SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 29 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 acl _ _ 30 forward forward ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 . . 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 | **find** | present | Kangaroos | | | | | hard *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **walk** | gerund | | | | | | backwards *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a popular story | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | that | | | | | as a sign; why *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | present | Kangaroos *= kangaroo* | | | Australia's coat of arms | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on coat=Location | | 6 | **go** | gerund | a sign *not said here* | | | | | forward *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. 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