--- title: The cassowary is a big flightless bird with a helmet on its head and… — Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassow… · tree and pragmatics description: The cassowary is a big flightless bird with a helmet on its head and dagger-like claws; it can kick very hard, so people are told to keep away and never feed it. Who acts: cassowary, people. 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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 (cassowary, people), 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:6 # text = The cassowary is a big flightless bird with a helmet on its head and dagger-like claws; it can kick very hard, so people are told to keep away and never feed it. # 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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cassowary cassowary NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 flightless flightless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 helmet helmet NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 dagger dagger NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 17 like like ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 claws claw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 kick kick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ _ 23 very very ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 22 advmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 27 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 28 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 advcl _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 away away ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 feed feed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the cassowary | a big flightless bird | | | | with a helmet on cassowary's head and dagger like claws | tree rules | | 2 | **kick** | can | cassowary | | | | | hard *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | people | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **keep away** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **feed** | infinitive | people *not said here* | cassowary | | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=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:6`. **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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