--- title: Wombats are the only animals known to make cube-shaped droppings, sh… — Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos,… · tree and pragmatics description: Wombats are the only animals known to make cube-shaped droppings, shaped by firmer and softer parts of the gut, and they leave them on rocks and logs to mark territory; their pouch faces backwards, so digging does not fill it with soil. Who acts: animals, pouch. 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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 (animals, pouch), 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:6 # text = Wombats are the only animals known to make cube-shaped droppings, shaped by firmer and softer parts of the gut, and they leave them on rocks and logs to mark territory; their pouch faces backwards, so digging does not fill it with soil. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Wombats wombat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 cube cube NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ _ 11 shaped shape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 12 droppings dropping NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 shaped shape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl _ _ 15 by by ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 firmer firmer NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 softer soft ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:amod 19 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 gut gut NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 leave leave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 logs log NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 mark mark VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 advcl _ _ 34 territory territory NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 35 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 pouch pouch NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 faces face VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 39 backwards backwards ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 41 so so ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 42 digging dig VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 45 advcl _ _ 43 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 44 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 45 advmod _ _ 45 fill fill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 46 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 obj _ _ 47 with with ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | present · passive | | Wombats | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | | cube | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset cube=Beneficiary dropping=Product | | 3 | **shape** | participle | | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 4 | **shape** | participle | | shaped droppings *not said here* | | | | by firmer and parts of the gut | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 5 | **leave** | present | animals *= animal* | droppings *= dropping* | | rocks and logs | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme on rock=Location | | 6 | **mark** | to-infinitive | animals *= animal* *not said here* | territory | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent territory=Destination | | 7 | **face** | present | animals's pouch | | | | | backwards *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **dig** | gerund | | | | | | | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **not** **fill** | present · do-support | | territory | | | | with soil | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with soil=Instrument | 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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