--- title: A red kangaroo bounds along like a pogo stick, and its springy tendo… — The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, tho… · tree and pragmatics description: A red kangaroo bounds along like a pogo stick, and its springy tendons bounce it forward so it hardly gets tired, while a thorny devil drinks by standing in damp sand and letting tiny grooves suck the water up to its mouth like a straw. 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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 (red kangaroo, springy tendons, kangaroo, thorny devil), 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:1 # text = A red kangaroo bounds along like a pogo stick, and its springy tendons bounce it forward so it hardly gets tired, while a thorny devil drinks by standing in damp sand and letting tiny grooves suck the water up to its mouth like a straw. # 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): R5-strong ×7, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 2 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:amod 3 kangaroo kangaroo NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound 4 bounds bound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 along along ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod 6 like like ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 pogo pogo NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 springy springy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 tendons tendon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 bounce bounce VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 forward forward ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 18 so so SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 22 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 while while SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:det 26 thorny thorny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:amod 27 devil devil NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:compound 28 drinks drink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advcl 29 by by SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 30 standing stand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 damp damp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 letting let VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 conj _ _ 36 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 grooves groove NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 38 suck suck VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 up up ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 42 to to ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 45 like like ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 straw straw NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=44:nmod 48 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bound** | present | a red kangaroo | | | | | like a pogo stick; along *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **bounce** | present | kangaroo's springy tendons | kangaroo | | | | forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **get** | present | kangaroo | | | | | hardly, tired *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **drink** | present | a thorny devil | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **stand** | gerund | a thorny devil *not said here* | | | damp sand | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sand=Location | | 6 | **let** | gerund | a thorny devil *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **suck up** | infinitive | tiny grooves | the water | | | | to devil's mouth; like a straw | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent water=Source | 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:1`. **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 ×7, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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