--- title: The Australian kookaburra's call sounds like loud laughter, and fami… — The aviary: the walk-through tropical house · tree and pragmatics description: The Australian kookaburra's call sounds like loud laughter, and families call together at dawn and dusk to say «this is our land». Who acts: call, families, this, Australian kookaburra. 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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 (call, families, this, Australian kookaburra), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:093-the-aviary-the-walk-through-tropical-house.lesson:13 # text = The Australian kookaburra's call sounds like loud laughter, and families call together at dawn and dusk to say «this is our land». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 093-the-aviary-the-walk-through-tropical-house.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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Australian Australian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 kookaburra kookaburra NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 call call NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 like like ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 laughter laughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 14 together together ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 dawn dawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 dusk dusk NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:acl 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 22 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 ccomp _ _ 26 » » PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **sound** | present | the Australian kookaburra's call | | | | | like loud laughter | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **call together** *speech: assert* | present | families | | | | dawn | together *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | families *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | this | our land | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **call** | | the Australian kookaburra | | | | | | nom call «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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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