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title: After rare rains the outback can burst into flowers, and some frogs… — The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, tho… · tree and pragmatics
description: After rare rains the outback can burst into flowers, and some frogs dig into the ground and wait years for the next rain. Who acts: outback, frogs. 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 prima
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# The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, thorny devils and runaway camels and toads, sentence 16

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After rare rains the outback can burst into flowers, and some frogs dig into the ground and wait years for the next rain.

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**Who acts:** outback, frogs · **What happens:** burst, dig, wait · **To what, where:** flowers

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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 (outback, frogs), 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:16
# text = After rare rains the outback can burst into flowers, and some frogs dig into the ground and wait years for the next rain.
# 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 ×1
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	rains	rain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	outback	outback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	burst	burst	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	dig	dig	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	wait	wait	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj
20	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **burst** | can | the outback |  |  | flowers | after rare rains |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **dig** | present | some frogs |  |  |  |  | into the ground | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent into ground=Patient |
| 3 | **wait** | present | some frogs *not said here* |  |  |  | year | for the next rain | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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:16`.

**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 ×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.

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

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