--- title: A kangaroo chased all day would not have longer-legged babies, just… — The real animals of the Just So Stories: the wha… · tree and pragmatics description: A kangaroo chased all day would not have longer-legged babies, just as a footballer's baby is not born with strong legs. Who acts: kangaroo. A sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab» of the biology cou --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The real animals of the Just So Storie…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab/) / 5 # The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab, sentence 5 A kangaroo chased all day would not have longer-legged babies, just as a footballer's baby is not born with strong legs. **Who acts:** kangaroo · **What happens:** chase, not have, leg, not bear · **To what, where:** kangaroo, legged babies, baby This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab» 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 (kangaroo), 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:5 # text = A kangaroo chased all day would not have longer-legged babies, just as a footballer's baby is not born with strong legs. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 kangaroo kangaroo NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 chased chase VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 5 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 11 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ _ 11 legged leg VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ _ 12 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 14 just just ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 15 as as SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 footballer footballer NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 's 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 advcl _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **chase** | participle | | a kangaroo *not said here* | | | day | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **have** | would | a kangaroo | legged babies | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient | | 3 | **leg** | participle | | | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **bear** | present · passive | | a footballer's baby | | | | with strong legs | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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:5`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [The real animals of the Just So Storie…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab/4/) - next →: [The real animals of the Just So Storie…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab/)