--- title: Most Australian mammals are marsupials, whose tiny babies finish gro… — Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos,… · tree and pragmatics description: Most Australian mammals are marsupials, whose tiny babies finish growing in a pouch: the red kangaroo, the koala, the wombat and the Tasmanian devil are all pouch mammals. Who acts: Most Australian mammals, tiny babies, red kangaroo. 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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 (Most Australian mammals, tiny babies, red kangaroo), 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:1 # text = Most Australian mammals are marsupials, whose tiny babies finish growing in a pouch: the red kangaroo, the koala, the wombat and the Tasmanian devil are all pouch mammals. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 2 Australian Australian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 mammals mammal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 marsupials marsupial NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 finish finish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 11 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 xcomp _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 pouch pouch NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 kangaroo kangaroo NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 koala koala NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 wombat wombat NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 Tasmanian Tasmanian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 devil devil NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 29 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 30 all all ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Tot 31 pouch pouch NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 mammals mammal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 parataxis _ _ 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 | **is a** | present | Most Australian mammals | marsupials | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **finish** | present | tiny babies | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **grow** | gerund | tiny babies *not said here* | | | a pouch | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pouch=Location | | 4 | **is a** | present | the red kangaroo and the koala and the wombat and the Tasmanian devil | pouch mammals | | | | all *property* | tree rules | 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:1`. **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): 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: [Animals of Australia and New Zealand:…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/79-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand/0/) - next →: [Animals of Australia and New Zealand:…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/79-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/79-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand/)