--- title: A contagious (catching) face cancer has killed many devils, and scie… — Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassow… · tree and pragmatics description: A contagious (catching) face cancer has killed many devils, and scientists keep healthy groups of devils safe to save the species. Who acts: contagious catching face cancer, scientists. 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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 (contagious catching face cancer, scientists), 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:5 # text = A contagious (catching) face cancer has killed many devils, and scientists keep healthy groups of devils safe to save the species. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 2 contagious contagious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 3 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 4 punct _ _ 4 catching catching NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 5 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 4 punct _ _ 6 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 cancer cancer NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 10 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 devils devil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 16 healthy healthy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 devils devil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 20 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 species species NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **kill** | present · perfect | a contagious catching face cancer | many devils | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent devil=Theme | | 2 | **keep** | present | scientists | healthy groups of devils | | | | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=Theme | | 3 | **save** | to-infinitive | scientists *not said here* | the species | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent species=Theme | 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:5`. **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): no change. **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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