--- title: The southern cassowary of northern Australia and New Guinea is a hug… — The rainforest from below: understorey and fores… · tree and pragmatics description: The southern cassowary of northern Australia and New Guinea is a huge flightless bird with a casque on its head and a dagger-like inner claw about 10 cm long; it can be dangerous to people who get close. Who acts: southern cassowary, dagger, 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 (southern cassowary, dagger, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:003-the-rainforest-from-below.lesson:16 # text = The southern cassowary of northern Australia and New Guinea is a huge flightless bird with a casque on its head and a dagger-like inner claw about 10 cm long; it can be dangerous to people who get close. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 003-the-rainforest-from-below.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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 southern southern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 cassowary cassowary NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 5 northern northern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:amod 6 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:compound 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 9 Guinea Guinea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 flightless flightless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 casque casque NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 23 dagger dagger NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ _ 25 like like ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 inner inner ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 claw claw NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 28 about about ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 cm cm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl:unmarked _ _ 31 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 cop _ _ 36 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj 37 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ _ 39 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 40 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 acl:relcl _ _ 41 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 42 . . PUNCT . _ 14 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 southern cassowary northern Australia and New and Guinea | a huge flightless bird | | | | with a casque on cassowary's head and a inner claw | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | can | dagger | | | | | to people; dangerous *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **get** | present | people | | | | | close *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:003-the-rainforest-from-below.lesson:16`. **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): R5-strong ×3, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The rainforest from below: understorey…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/3-the-rainforest-from-below/15/) - next →: [The rainforest from below: understorey…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/3-the-rainforest-from-below/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/3-the-rainforest-from-below/)