--- title: The emu is the second tallest bird, up to about 1.9 metres, and runs… — Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos,… · tree and pragmatics description: The emu is the second tallest bird, up to about 1.9 metres, and runs at around 50 kilometres per hour; the father sits on the eggs for about 8 weeks, hardly eating, and in the 1932 Emu War the emus mostly won. Who acts: emu, father, emus. 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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 (emu, father, emus), 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:14 # text = The emu is the second tallest bird, up to about 1.9 metres, and runs at around 50 kilometres per hour; the father sits on the eggs for about 8 weeks, hardly eating, and in the 1932 Emu War the emus mostly won. # 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, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 emu emu NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 7 amod _ _ 6 tallest tall ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ _ 7 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 up up ADP IN _ 13 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 10 to to ADP IN _ 9 fixed _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:case 11 about about ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 1.9 1.9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 appos _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 around around ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 21 per per ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 27 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 about about ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 41 1932 1932 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 43 compound _ _ 42 Emu Emu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 War War PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 obl _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 emus emu NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 nsubj _ _ 46 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 47 won win VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=26:conj 48 . . 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 | **is a** | present | the emu | the second tallest bird | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **run** | present | the emu *not said here* | | | 50 kilometres per hour | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at kilometre=Trajectory | | 3 | **sit** | present | the father | | | the eggs | week | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on egg=Location | | 4 | **eat** | gerund | the father *not said here* | | | | | hardly *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **win** | past | the emus | | | the 1932 Emu War | | mostly *property* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in war=Eventuality | 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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