--- title: Tasmanian devils are the biggest living meat-eating marsupials and s… — Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassow… · tree and pragmatics description: Tasmanian devils are the biggest living meat-eating marsupials and scavenge as well as hunt. Who acts: Tasmanian devils. 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 with its depen --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings, sentence 4 Tasmanian devils are the biggest living meat-eating marsupials and scavenge as well as hunt. **Who acts:** Tasmanian devils · **What happens:** be, live, eat, scavenge · **To what, where:** marsupials 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 (Tasmanian devils), 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:4 # text = Tasmanian devils are the biggest living meat-eating marsupials and scavenge as well as hunt. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Tasmanian tasmanian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 devils devil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 0 root _ _ 6 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 7 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ _ 9 eating eat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 conj _ _ 10 marsupials marsupial NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc 12 scavenge scavenge VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 13 as as ADV RB ExtPos=ADV 12 advmod _ _ 14 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 fixed _ _ 15 as as ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 hunt hunt NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 17 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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** | present | Tasmanian devils | | | | | big *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | gerund | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **eat** | gerund | | marsupials | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marsupial=Patient | | 4 | **scavenge** | infinitive | Tasmanian devils *not said here* | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | 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:4`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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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