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title: People also brought animals that ran wild: dingoes thousands of year… — The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, tho… · tree and pragmatics
description: People also brought animals that ran wild: dingoes thousands of years ago, then camels and cane toads, and the toads have become a poisonous pest. Who acts: People, animals, toads. A sentence of the lesson «The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, thorny devils and runaway camels and toads» of t
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# The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, thorny devils and runaway camels and toads, sentence 2

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People also brought animals that ran wild: dingoes thousands of years ago, then camels and cane toads, and the toads have become a poisonous pest.

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**Who acts:** People, animals, toads · **What happens:** bring, run, become · **To what, where:** animals, poisonous pest

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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 (People, animals, toads), 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:2
# text = People also brought animals that ran wild: dingoes thousands of years ago, then camels and cane toads, and the toads have become a poisonous pest.
# 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
9	dingoes	dingo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	compound	_	_
10	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl:unmarked
13	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
16	camels	camel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	cane	cane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	toads	toad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	toads	toad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	pest	pest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	xcomp	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
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## 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 | **bring** | past | People |  | animals and dingoes thousands of years and camels and cane toads |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument animal=Destination |
| 2 | **run** | past | animals and dingoes thousands of years and camels and cane toads |  |  |  |  | wild *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **become** | present · perfect | the toads | a poisonous pest |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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:2`.

**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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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