--- title: There are also kangaroos that climb trees, gliders that sail fifty m… — Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassow… · tree and pragmatics description: There are also kangaroos that climb trees, gliders that sail fifty metres in the dark, and the wombat, which leaves cube-shaped droppings on rocks like little dice. Who acts: kangaroos, gliders, wombat. A sentence of the lesson «Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cu --- [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/3/) [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/) / 3 # Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings, sentence 3 There are also kangaroos that climb trees, gliders that sail fifty metres in the dark, and the wombat, which leaves cube-shaped droppings on rocks like little dice. **Who acts:** kangaroos, gliders, wombat · **What happens:** be, climb, sail, leave, shape · **To what, where:** trees, fifty metres, dark, shaped droppings, rocks 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 (kangaroos, gliders, wombat), 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:3 # text = There are also kangaroos that climb trees, gliders that sail fifty metres in the dark, and the wombat, which leaves cube-shaped droppings on rocks like little dice. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 also also ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 kangaroos kangaroo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 climb climb VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 gliders glider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 sail sail VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 dark dark NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 wombat wombat NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 leaves leave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 24 cube cube NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 26 shaped shape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 27 droppings dropping NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:nmod 30 like like ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 dice dice NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 33 . . 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 | **does** | present | kangaroos and gliders | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **climb** | present | kangaroos and gliders | trees | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme | | 3 | **sail** | present | gliders | fifty metres | | the dark | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme metre=Trajectory | | 4 | **leave** | present | the wombat | shaped droppings | | rocks like little dice | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dropping=Theme on rock=Location | | 5 | **shape** | participle | | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | 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:3`. **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 ×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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