--- title: Dingoes are wild dogs that came to Australia with people several tho… — The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, tho… · tree and pragmatics description: Dingoes are wild dogs that came to Australia with people several thousand years ago, and a dingo fence over five thousand kilometres long protects sheep farms. Who acts: Dingoes, wild dogs, dingo fence. 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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 (Dingoes, wild dogs, dingo fence), 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:11 # text = Dingoes are wild dogs that came to Australia with people several thousand years ago, and a dingo fence over five thousand kilometres long protects sheep farms. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Dingoes dingo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 11 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 ago ago ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 dingo dingo NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 fence fence NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 20 over over ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 compound _ _ 22 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl:unmarked _ _ 24 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 25 protects protect VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 26 sheep sheep NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 27 farms farm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 . . 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 | **is a** | present | Dingoes | wild dogs and a dingo fence | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **come** | past | wild dogs and a dingo fence | | | Australia | | with people; ago *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to australia=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **protect** | present | a dingo fence *not said here* | sheep farms | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farm=Beneficiary | 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:11`. **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): R7-rel-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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