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title: Sugar gliders are tiny marsupials with skin flaps between their legs… — Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassow… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sugar gliders are tiny marsupials with skin flaps between their legs that can glide about fifty metres from tree to tree at night. Who acts: Sugar gliders, legs. A sentence of the lesson «Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings» of the biology cours
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# Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings, sentence 14

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Sugar gliders are tiny marsupials with skin flaps between their legs that can glide about fifty metres from tree to tree at night.

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**Who acts:** Sugar gliders, legs · **What happens:** be, glide · **To what, where:** tiny marsupials, fifty metres, tree

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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 (Sugar gliders, legs), 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:14
# text = Sugar gliders are tiny marsupials with skin flaps between their legs that can glide about fifty metres from tree to tree at night.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	Sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	gliders	glider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	marsupials	marsupial	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	flaps	flap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	between	between	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	glide	glide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
16	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Sugar gliders | tiny marsupials |  |  |  | with skin flaps between marsupials's legs | tree rules |
| 2 | **glide** | can | marsupials's legs | fifty metres |  | tree | night | to tree | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme from tree=Source to tree=Trajectory |

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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:14`.

**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): R5-strong ×2. **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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