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title: Australian possums, such as the brushtail possum that often lives in… — Raccoons, opossums and skunks · tree and pragmatics
description: Australian possums, such as the brushtail possum that often lives in roofs, are different from American opossums; both are marsupials but from different families. Who acts: brushtail possum, Australian possums, both. A sentence of the lesson «Raccoons, opossums and skunks» of the biology course of M
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# Raccoons, opossums and skunks, sentence 14

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Australian possums, such as the brushtail possum that often lives in roofs, are different from American opossums; both are marsupials but from different families.

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**Who acts:** brushtail possum, Australian possums, both · **What happens:** live, be · **To what, where:** roofs, American opossums, marsupials

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Raccoons, opossums and skunks» 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 (brushtail possum, Australian possums, both), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks.lesson:14
# text = Australian possums, such as the brushtail possum that often lives in roofs, are different from American opossums; both are marsupials but from different families.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks.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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Australian	Australian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	possums	possum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	8	case	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	brushtail	brushtail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	possum	possum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:appos
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	often	often	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	roofs	roof	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	opossums	opossum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	marsupials	marsupial	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:appos
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | the brushtail possum |  |  | roofs |  | often *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in roof=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | Australian possums such the brushtail possum |  |  | American opossums |  | different *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | both | marsupials but different families |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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