--- title: The puzzles are real: a wombat makes cube-shaped droppings, a platyp… — Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos,… · tree and pragmatics description: The puzzles are real: a wombat makes cube-shaped droppings, a platypus finds shrimps with its eyes shut by sensing electricity, and a kea parrot will happily take apart your car's windscreen wiper. Who acts: puzzles, wombat, platypus, kea parrot. 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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 (puzzles, wombat, platypus, kea parrot), 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:2 # text = The puzzles are real: a wombat makes cube-shaped droppings, a platypus finds shrimps with its eyes shut by sensing electricity, and a kea parrot will happily take apart your car's windscreen wiper. # 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 2 det _ _ 2 puzzles puzzle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 wombat wombat NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 9 cube cube NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ _ 11 shaped shaped ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 droppings dropping NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 platypus platypus NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 17 shrimps shrimp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 21 shut shut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl _ _ 22 by by SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 23 sensing sense VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 24 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 kea kea NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 parrot parrot NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 30 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 happily happily ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 33 apart apart ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 34 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod:poss _ _ 36 's 's PART POS _ 35 case _ _ 37 windscreen windscreen NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 wiper wiper NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the puzzles | | | | | real *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | present | a wombat | cube shaped droppings | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dropping=Product | | 3 | **find** | present | a platypus | shrimps | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shrimp=Topic | | 4 | **shut** | participle | | platypus's eyes *not said here* | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **sense** | gerund | | electricity | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer electricity=Stimulus | | 6 | **take apart** | future | a kea parrot | your car's windscreen wiper | | | | happily *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wiper=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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