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title: Australia has the biggest herd of wild camels in the world, descende… — The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, tho… · tree and pragmatics
description: Australia has the biggest herd of wild camels in the world, descended from camels brought in the 1800s to carry goods across the desert. Who acts: Australia. A sentence of the lesson «The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, thorny devils and runaway camels and toads» of the biology course of Mo
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# The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, thorny devils and runaway camels and toads, sentence 14

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Australia has the biggest herd of wild camels in the world, descended from camels brought in the 1800s to carry goods across the desert.

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**Who acts:** Australia · **What happens:** have, descend, bring, carry · **To what, where:** biggest herd, wild camels, camels, 1800s, goods, desert

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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 (Australia), 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:14
# text = Australia has the biggest herd of wild camels in the world, descended from camels brought in the 1800s to carry goods across the desert.
# 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): no change
1	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	camels	camel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	descended	descend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	camels	camel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	1800s	1800	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
22	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	21	obj	_	_
23	across	across	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Australia | the biggest herd of wild camels in the world |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Patient |
| 2 | **descend** | participle |  | wild camels in the world *not said here* |  | camels |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from camel=Location |
| 3 | **bring** | participle |  | camels *not said here* |  | the 1800s |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **carry** | to-infinitive |  | goods |  | the desert |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Theme |

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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.

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**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): no change. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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