--- title: The outback is the huge dry middle of Australia: red sand, low bushe… — The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, tho… · tree and pragmatics description: The outback is the huge dry middle of Australia: red sand, low bushes, rare rain and heat that can bake the ground, yet it is full of animals that have found clever ways to live there. Who acts: outback, heat, animals. A sentence of the lesson «The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, thorny dev --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/165-the-australian-outback-kangaroos-emus-thorny-devils-and-runaway-toads/0/) [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/) / [The Australian outback: red kangaroos,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/165-the-australian-outback-kangaroos-emus-thorny-devils-and-runaway-toads/) / 0 # The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, thorny devils and runaway camels and toads, sentence 0 The outback is the huge dry middle of Australia: red sand, low bushes, rare rain and heat that can bake the ground, yet it is full of animals that have found clever ways to live there. **Who acts:** outback, heat, animals · **What happens:** be, bake, find, live · **To what, where:** huge dry middle, ground, clever ways This is a sentence of the lesson «The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, thorny devils and runaway camels and toads» 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 (outback, heat, animals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:165-the-australian-outback-kangaroos-emus-thorny-devils-and-runaway-toads.lesson:0 # text = The outback is the huge dry middle of Australia: red sand, low bushes, rare rain and heat that can bake the ground, yet it is full of animals that have found clever ways to live there. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 165-the-australian-outback-kangaroos-emus-thorny-devils-and-runaway-toads.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): R3-conj-first ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 outback outback NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 bushes bush NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=18:conj 21 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 bake bake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 acl:relcl _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 33 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 34 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 32 acl:relcl _ _ 36 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 acl _ _ 40 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 39 advmod _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 a** | present | the outback | the huge dry middle and red sand and low bushes and rare rain and heat | | | | of Australia | tree rules | | 2 | **bake** | can | heat | the ground | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Product | | 3 | **is** | present | outback | | | | | of animals; full *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **find** | present · perfect | animals | clever ways | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | | 5 | **live** | to-infinitive | animals *not said here* | clever ways *not said here* | | there | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:165-the-australian-outback-kangaroos-emus-thorny-devils-and-runaway-toads.lesson:0`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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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