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title: Koalas are marsupials, not bears; they rest about 18 to 22 hours a d… — Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Koalas are marsupials, not bears; they rest about 18 to 22 hours a day because eucalyptus leaves are tough, low in energy and poisonous to most animals, and they are not drunk on eucalyptus. Who acts: Koalas, marsupials, eucalyptus leaves. A sentence of the lesson «Animals of Australia and New Zeala
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# Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos, koalas, wombats, kiwis, sentence 5

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Koalas are marsupials, not bears; they rest about 18 to 22 hours a day because eucalyptus leaves are tough, low in energy and poisonous to most animals, and they are not drunk on eucalyptus.

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**Who acts:** Koalas, marsupials, eucalyptus leaves · **What happens:** be, rest, not be · **To what, where:** marsupials, energy, eucalyptus

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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 (Koalas, marsupials, eucalyptus leaves), 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:5
# text = Koalas are marsupials, not bears; they rest about 18 to 22 hours a day because eucalyptus leaves are tough, low in energy and poisonous to most animals, and they are not drunk on eucalyptus.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Koalas	koala	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	marsupials	marsupial	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	rest	rest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	22	22	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nmod	_	_
14	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:unmarked	_	_
17	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	eucalyptus	eucalyptus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	tough	tough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=23:cc
27	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	30	amod	_	_
30	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=21:cc
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:aux:pass
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	drunk	drunk	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	eucalyptus	eucalyptus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Koalas | marsupials and bears |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rest** | present | marsupials *= marsupial* |  |  |  | hour |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | eucalyptus leaves |  |  |  |  | tough *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | eucalyptus leaves *not said here* |  |  | energy |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **is** | present · passive |  | marsupials *= marsupial* |  | eucalyptus |  | drunk *property* | tree rules |

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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): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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