--- title: Kangaroos cannot easily move backwards, and people like to say this… — The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, tho… · tree and pragmatics description: Kangaroos cannot easily move backwards, and people like to say this is why the kangaroo and the emu, which also rarely steps back, are on the Australian coat of arms. Who acts: Kangaroos, people, this, kangaroo. 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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 (Kangaroos, people, this, kangaroo), 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:5 # text = Kangaroos cannot easily move backwards, and people like to say this is why the kangaroo and the emu, which also rarely steps back, are on the Australian coat of arms. # 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 Kangaroos kangaroo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 4 easily easily ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 backwards backwards ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 like like VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 15 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 ccomp _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 kangaroo kangaroo NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 emu emu NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 23 also also ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 24 rarely rarely ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 steps step VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl _ _ 26 back back ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 28 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 Australian Australian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 ccomp _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **move** | can | Kangaroos | | | | | backwards, easily *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **like** | present | people | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | this | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **step back** | present | the kangaroo and the emu | | | | | rarely *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is** | present | the kangaroo and the emu | | | the Australian coat | | of arms | tree rules | 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:5`. **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. 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