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title: Cartoons call the koala a bear, draw kangaroos as boxers that hop fo… — Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cartoons call the koala a bear, draw kangaroos as boxers that hop forever, and make every Australian animal a cuddly toy; real koalas are not bears, and a cassowary's kick or a platypus's spur is no joke. Who acts: Cartoons, boxers, real koalas, kick. A sentence of the lesson «Animals of Australia a
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# Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos, koalas, wombats, kiwis, sentence 3

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Cartoons call the koala a bear, draw kangaroos as boxers that hop forever, and make every Australian animal a cuddly toy; real koalas are not bears, and a cassowary's kick or a platypus's spur is no joke.

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**Who acts:** Cartoons, boxers, real koalas, kick, cassowary · **What happens:** call, draw, hop, make, not be, be · **To what, where:** koala, kangaroos, Australian animal, bears, joke · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Cartoons, boxers, real koalas, kick), 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:3
# text = Cartoons call the koala a bear, draw kangaroos as boxers that hop forever, and make every Australian animal a cuddly toy; real koalas are not bears, and a cassowary's kick or a platypus's spur is no joke.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	koala	koala	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	draw	draw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	kangaroos	kangaroo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	boxers	boxer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	hop	hop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
18	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
19	Australian	Australian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	cuddly	cuddly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	koalas	koala	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=29:punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	cassowary	cassowary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	's	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	kick	kick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	platypus	platypus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
39	's	's	PART	POS	_	38	case	_	_
40	spur	spur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=38:conj
41	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
42	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	43	det	_	_
43	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | Cartoons |  | the koala |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent koala=Recipient |
| 2 | **draw** | infinitive | Cartoons *not said here* | kangaroos |  |  |  | as boxers | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent kangaroo=Result as boxer=Attribute |
| 3 | **hop** | present | boxers |  |  |  |  | forever *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | present | Cartoons *not said here* | every Australian animal |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset animal=Product |
| 5 | **not** **is a** | present | real koalas | bears and no joke |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** | present | a cassowary's kick or a platypus and spur | no joke |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **kick** |  | a cassowary |  |  |  |  |  | nom kick «act 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×2, R5-strong ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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