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title: The southern cassowary has a dagger-like claw up to about 12 centime… — Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The southern cassowary has a dagger-like claw up to about 12 centimetres on each foot; it avoids people, but fed cassowaries lose their fear and can kick if fed or cornered, so it must be watched from a distance and never fed. Who acts: southern cassowary, cassowary, fed cassowaries, people. A sente
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# Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos, koalas, wombats, kiwis, sentence 15

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The southern cassowary has a dagger-like claw up to about 12 centimetres on each foot; it avoids people, but fed cassowaries lose their fear and can kick if fed or cornered, so it must be watched from a distance and never fed.

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**Who acts:** southern cassowary, cassowary, fed cassowaries, people · **What happens:** have, avoid, lose, kick, feed, corner · **To what, where:** dagger like claw, people, fear, cassowary

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos, koalas, wombats, kiwis» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (southern cassowary, cassowary, fed cassowaries, people), 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:15
# text = The southern cassowary has a dagger-like claw up to about 12 centimetres on each foot; it avoids people, but fed cassowaries lose their fear and can kick if fed or cornered, so it must be watched from a distance and never fed.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cassowary	cassowary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	dagger	dagger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	claw	claw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	up	up	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	avoids	avoid	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
21	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	fed	fed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	cassowaries	cassowary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	lose	lose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	kick	kick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
32	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
33	fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	advcl	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	cornered	corner	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	conj	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
40	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	watched	watch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
42	from	from	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
46	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	47	advmod	_	_
47	fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	conj	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the southern cassowary | a dagger like claw |  |  |  | to 12 centimetres on each foot | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Patient |
| 2 | **avoid** | present | cassowary | people |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent people=Location |
| 3 | **lose** | present | fed cassowaries | people's fear |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Eventuality |
| 4 | **kick** | can | fed cassowaries *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **feed** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | fed cassowaries *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **corner** | participle | fed cassowaries *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **watch** | must · passive |  | cassowary |  |  |  | from a distance | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 8 | **not** **feed** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **fear** |  | people |  |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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.

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