--- title: A red kangaroo can cover about eight metres in one bound; springy te… — The real animals of the Just So Stories: the wha… · tree and pragmatics description: A red kangaroo can cover about eight metres in one bound; springy tendons in its back legs store energy like a pogo stick, so hopping fast costs it little effort. Who acts: red kangaroo, springy tendons, hopping. 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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 (red kangaroo, springy tendons, hopping), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab.lesson:15 # text = A red kangaroo can cover about eight metres in one bound; springy tendons in its back legs store energy like a pogo stick, so hopping fast costs it little effort. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 kangaroo kangaroo NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 cover cover VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 about about ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 7 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obl 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 bound bound NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 13 springy springy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 tendons tendon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 back back ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 19 store store VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 20 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 like like ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 pogo pogo NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 27 hopping hop VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:nsubj 28 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 27 advmod _ _ 29 costs cost VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 iobj _ _ 31 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 effort effort NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cover** | can | a red kangaroo | eight metres | | | | in one bound | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent metre=Destination in bound=Theme | | 2 | **store** | present | springy tendons in Kangaroo's back legs | energy | | | | like a pogo stick | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme | | 3 | **hop** | gerund | | | | | | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **cost** | present | hopping | little effort | energy | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme it=Beneficiary effort=Value | 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:404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab.lesson:15`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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