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title: A red kangaroo is born after only about 33 days, the size of a jelly… — Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents · tree and pragmatics
description: A red kangaroo is born after only about 33 days, the size of a jellybean, crawls into its mother's pouch to drink milk, and stays there about 8 months. A sentence of the lesson «Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and
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# Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents, sentence 4

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A red kangaroo is born after only about 33 days, the size of a jellybean, crawls into its mother's pouch to drink milk, and stays there about 8 months.

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**What happens:** bear, crawl, drink, stay · **To what, where:** red kangaroo, pouch, milk

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:049-babies.lesson:4
# text = A red kangaroo is born after only about 33 days, the size of a jellybean, crawls into its mother's pouch to drink milk, and stays there about 8 months.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 049-babies.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 ×2
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:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	33	33	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	jellybean	jellybean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	crawls	crawl	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	pouch	pouch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
26	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
30	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
31	about	about	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl:unmarked	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **bear** | present · passive |  | a red kangaroo |  |  | day |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **crawl** | present |  |  |  | jellybean's mother's pouch |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into pouch=Destination |
| 3 | **drink** | to-infinitive |  | milk |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient |
| 4 | **stay** | present |  |  |  | there | month |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:049-babies.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): R5-strong ×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/).

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