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title: Along Australia's wetter east coast and on the island of Tasmania th… — Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassow… · tree and pragmatics
description: Along Australia's wetter east coast and on the island of Tasmania there are rainforests and tall eucalyptus forests full of animals as odd as any desert creature. Who acts: rainforests. A sentence of the lesson «Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppin
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# Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings, sentence 0

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Along Australia's wetter east coast and on the island of Tasmania there are rainforests and tall eucalyptus forests full of animals as odd as any desert creature.

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**Who acts:** rainforests · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** wetter east coast

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings» 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 (rainforests), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds.lesson:0
# text = Along Australia's wetter east coast and on the island of Tasmania there are rainforests and tall eucalyptus forests full of animals as odd as any desert creature.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Along	along	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	wetter	wet	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
5	east	east	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Tasmania	Tasmania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
14	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=AUX:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
15	rainforests	rainforest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	eucalyptus	eucalyptus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
20	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:nmod
23	as	as	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
24	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
27	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **does** | present | rainforests and tall eucalyptus forests |  |  | Australia's wetter east coast and the island of Tasmania; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along coast=Location |

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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:167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds.lesson:0`.

**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 ×2, 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.

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

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