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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 (Australia, animals, mammals, birds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:079-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand.lesson:0 # text = Australia and New Zealand drifted away from the other continents long ago, and their animals went their own strange way: mammals that lay eggs, babies the size of a jellybean in pouches, and birds that walk because nothing on the ground used to hunt them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 079-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 3 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 flat _ _ 4 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 5 drifted drift VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 away away ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 continents continent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 11 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 12 advmod _ _ 12 ago ago ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 19 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obl:unmarked 22 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 23 mammals mammal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 appos _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 appos _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 jellybean jellybean NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 pouches pouch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 39 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 40 walk walk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 acl:relcl _ _ 41 because because SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 42 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 46 nsubj _ _ 43 on on ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ _ 46 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advcl 47 to to PART TO _ 48 mark _ _ 48 hunt hunt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 46 xcomp _ _ 49 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 obj _ _ 50 . . 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 | **drift away** | past | Australia and New Zealand | | | the other continents | | ago, away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from continent=Trajectory | | 2 | **go** | past | Australia's animals | Australia's own strange way | | | | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | | 3 | **lay** | present | mammals and babies and birds | eggs | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | | 4 | **walk** | present | birds | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **use** | past | nothing | | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **hunt** | to-infinitive | nothing *not said here* | eggs *= egg* | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | 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:079-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand.lesson:0`. **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, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Conservation: how people help animals…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/78-conservation-animals-come-back/15/) - next →: [Animals of Australia and New Zealand:…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/79-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/79-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand/)