--- title: The Tasmanian devil is the largest surviving meat-eating marsupial,… — Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos,… · tree and pragmatics description: The Tasmanian devil is the largest surviving meat-eating marsupial, about the size of a small dog, with a bone-crushing bite; a face tumour disease has killed many, so disease-free groups are kept as insurance. Who acts: Tasmanian devil, face tumour disease. 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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 (Tasmanian devil, face tumour disease), 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:13 # text = The Tasmanian devil is the largest surviving meat-eating marsupial, about the size of a small dog, with a bone-crushing bite; a face tumour disease has killed many, so disease-free groups are kept as insurance. # 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 ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Tasmanian tasmanian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 devil devil NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 6 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 11 amod _ _ 7 surviving survive VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 amod _ _ 8 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ _ 10 eating eat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 11 marsupial marsupial NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 about about ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 23 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 25 crushing crush VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 amod _ _ 26 bite bite NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 29 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 30 tumour tumour NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 disease disease NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 parataxis _ _ 34 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 obj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 36 so so ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 37 disease disease NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ _ 39 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nsubj:pass _ _ 41 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:acl 43 as as ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 insurance insurance NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 11 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 | **survive** | gerund | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **eat** | gerund | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | the Tasmanian devil | the largest surviving eating marsupial and the size of a small dog | | | | with a crushing bite | tree rules | | 4 | **crush** | gerund | | | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **kill** | present · perfect | a face tumour disease | many | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Theme | | 6 | **keep** | present · passive | | disease free groups | | | | as insurance | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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. 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