--- title: Koalas sleep up to about twenty hours a day, and they are marsupials… — Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassow… · tree and pragmatics description: Koalas sleep up to about twenty hours a day, and they are marsupials, not bears, even though people call them koala bears. Who acts: Koalas, people. A sentence of the lesson «Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings» of the biology course of Mova's p --- [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/11/) [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/) / 11 # Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings, sentence 11 Koalas sleep up to about twenty hours a day, and they are marsupials, not bears, even though people call them koala bears. **Who acts:** Koalas, people · **What happens:** sleep up, be, call · **To what, where:** marsupials, Koalas · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Koalas, people), 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:11 # text = Koalas sleep up to about twenty hours a day, and they are marsupials, not bears, even though people call them koala bears. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Koalas koala NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 sleep sleep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 about about ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:unmarked _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 marsupials marsupial NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 bears bear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 even even ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 20 though though SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 koala koala NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 bears bear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obj 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sleep up** | present | Koalas | | | | hour | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | Koalas *= koala* | marsupials and bears | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **call** | present | people | Koalas *= koala* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=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:11`. **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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