--- title: The red kangaroo is the largest marsupial and can hop at over fifty… — The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, tho… · tree and pragmatics description: The red kangaroo is the largest marsupial and can hop at over fifty kilometres an hour; males wrestle and kick each other with their strong back legs. Who acts: red kangaroo, males. A sentence of the lesson «The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, thorny devils and runaway camels and toads» of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/165-the-australian-outback-kangaroos-emus-thorny-devils-and-runaway-toads/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The Australian outback: red kangaroos,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/165-the-australian-outback-kangaroos-emus-thorny-devils-and-runaway-toads/) / 4 # The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, thorny devils and runaway camels and toads, sentence 4 The red kangaroo is the largest marsupial and can hop at over fifty kilometres an hour; males wrestle and kick each other with their strong back legs. **Who acts:** red kangaroo, males · **What happens:** be, hop, wrestle, kick · **To what, where:** largest marsupial, fifty kilometres, each 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 (red kangaroo, males), 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:4 # text = The red kangaroo is the largest marsupial and can hop at over fifty kilometres an hour; males wrestle and kick each other with their strong back legs. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 kangaroo kangaroo NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ _ 7 marsupial marsupial NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 hop hop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 over over ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 15 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod:unmarked _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 18 males male NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 wrestle wrestle VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 kick kick VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 22 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 21 obj _ _ 23 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 fixed _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 25 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 26 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 27 back back ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | the red kangaroo | the largest marsupial | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **hop** | can | the red kangaroo *not said here* | | | fifty kilometres a hour | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at kilometre=Trajectory | | 3 | **wrestle** | present | males | | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **kick** | present | males *not said here* | each | | | | with males's strong back legs | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent each=Patient with leg=Instrument | 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:4`. **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, R8-pos-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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