--- title: The laughing kookaburra is a big kingfisher whose family groups laug… — Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos,… · tree and pragmatics description: The laughing kookaburra is a big kingfisher whose family groups laugh together at dawn and dusk to mark territory; it eats snakes, lizards, insects and mice. Who acts: laughing kookaburra, family groups, kookaburra. 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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 (laughing kookaburra, family groups, kookaburra), 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:12 # text = The laughing kookaburra is a big kingfisher whose family groups laugh together at dawn and dusk to mark territory; it eats snakes, lizards, insects and mice. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 kookaburra kookaburra NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 kingfisher kingfisher NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 laugh laugh VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 12 together together ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 dawn dawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 dusk dusk NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 mark mark VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 19 territory territory NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 23 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 lizards lizard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=27:conj 30 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **laugh** | gerund | | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | the laughing kookaburra | a big kingfisher | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **laugh** | present | family groups | | | | dawn | together *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **mark** | to-infinitive | family groups *not said here* | territory | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent territory=Destination | | 5 | **eat** | present | kookaburra | snakes and lizards and insects and mice | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=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:079-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand.lesson:12`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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. 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