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title: And the Australian possum living in a roof is a different animal fro… — Raccoons, opossums and skunks · tree and pragmatics
description: And the Australian possum living in a roof is a different animal from the American opossum, though both carry their babies in pouches. Who acts: Australian possum, both. A sentence of the lesson «Raccoons, opossums and skunks» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a
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# Raccoons, opossums and skunks, sentence 4

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And the Australian possum living in a roof is a different animal from the American opossum, though both carry their babies in pouches.

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**Who acts:** Australian possum, both · **What happens:** live, be, carry · **To what, where:** roof, different animal, American opossum, babies, pouches

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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 (Australian possum, 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:4
# text = And the Australian possum living in a roof is a different animal from the American opossum, though both carry their babies in pouches.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Australian	Australian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	possum	possum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
5	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	opossum	opossum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot
20	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	pouches	pouch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | gerund | the Australian possum *not said here* |  |  | a roof |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in roof=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the Australian possum | a different animal |  | the American opossum |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **carry** | present | both | babies's babies |  | pouches |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent baby=Value in pouch=Location |

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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:224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks.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): 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.

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

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