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title: Tree kangaroos live in rainforests, climb with strong arms and can l… — Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassow… · tree and pragmatics
description: Tree kangaroos live in rainforests, climb with strong arms and can leap many metres down to the ground without getting hurt. Who acts: Tree kangaroos. A sentence of the lesson «Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings» of the biology course of Mova's
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# Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings, sentence 9

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Tree kangaroos live in rainforests, climb with strong arms and can leap many metres down to the ground without getting hurt.

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**Who acts:** Tree kangaroos · **What happens:** live, climb, leap, get · **To what, where:** rainforests, many metres

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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 (Tree kangaroos), 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:9
# text = Tree kangaroos live in rainforests, climb with strong arms and can leap many metres down to the ground without getting hurt.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	Tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	kangaroos	kangaroo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	rainforests	rainforest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	climb	climb	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	leap	leap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=7:conj
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	down	down	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	advcl	_	_
22	hurt	hurt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | Tree kangaroos |  |  | rainforests |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rainforest=Location |
| 2 | **climb** | present | Tree kangaroos *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with strong arms | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **leap** | can | Tree kangaroos *not said here* | many metres |  |  |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **get** | gerund | Tree kangaroos *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hurt *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:9`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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