--- title: Wombats are the only animals known to make cube-shaped droppings, wh… — Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassow… · tree and pragmatics description: Wombats are the only animals known to make cube-shaped droppings, which do not roll away, and they leave them on rocks and logs to mark their area. Who acts: shaped droppings, animals. 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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 (shaped droppings, animals), 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:12 # text = Wombats are the only animals known to make cube-shaped droppings, which do not roll away, and they leave them on rocks and logs to mark their area. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Wombats wombat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 cube cube NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 11 shaped shape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 12 droppings dropping NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 15 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 roll roll VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl:relcl _ _ 18 away away ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 leave leave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 logs log NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 mark mark VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ _ 30 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 area area NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | present · passive | | Wombats | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | | shaped droppings | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dropping=Product | | 3 | **shape** | participle | | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 4 | **not** **roll away** | present · do-support | shaped droppings | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **leave** | present | animals *= animal* | droppings *= dropping* | | rocks and logs | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme on rock=Location | | 6 | **mark** | to-infinitive | animals *= animal* *not said here* | animals's area | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent area=Destination | 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:12`. **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): 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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