--- title: Quokkas are small wallabies that live mostly on Rottnest Island and… — Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassow… · tree and pragmatics description: Quokkas are small wallabies that live mostly on Rottnest Island and look like they are smiling, and touching or feeding them is against the rules and can be fined. Who acts: Quokkas, small wallabies, touching. A sentence of the lesson «Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds/10/) [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/) / [Australia's forests and Tasmania: devi…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds/) / 10 # Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings, sentence 10 Quokkas are small wallabies that live mostly on Rottnest Island and look like they are smiling, and touching or feeding them is against the rules and can be fined. **Who acts:** Quokkas, small wallabies, touching · **What happens:** be, live, look, smile, touch, feed · **To what, where:** small wallabies, Rottnest Island, Quokkas 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 (Quokkas, small wallabies, touching), 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:10 # text = Quokkas are small wallabies that live mostly on Rottnest Island and look like they are smiling, and touching or feeding them is against the rules and can be fined. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Quokkas quokka NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 wallabies wallaby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 Rottnest Rottnest PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 Island Island PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 13 like like SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 smiling smile VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 touching touch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:nsubj 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 feeding feed VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 conj _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 24 against against ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 fined fine VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Quokkas | small wallabies | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | present | small wallabies | | | Rottnest Island | | mostly *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=Location | | 3 | **look** | present | small wallabies *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **smile** | present · progressive | Quokkas *= quokka* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **touch** | gerund | | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **feed** | gerund | | Quokkas *= quokka* | | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | | 7 | **is** | present | touching | | | | | against the rules | tree rules | | 8 | **fine** | can · passive | touching *not said here* | | | | | | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient» | 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:167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds.lesson:10`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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