--- title: Real biology: kangaroos are marsupials, carrying their babies (joeys… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-S… · tree and pragmatics description: Real biology: kangaroos are marsupials, carrying their babies (joeys) in a pouch; their long back legs have springy tendons that store energy, so hopping is a very cheap way to travel far. Who acts: kangaroos, long back legs, springy tendons, hopping. 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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 (kangaroos, long back legs, springy tendons, hopping), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:081-justso-old-man-kangaroo.lesson:18 # text = Real biology: kangaroos are marsupials, carrying their babies (joeys) in a pouch; their long back legs have springy tendons that store energy, so hopping is a very cheap way to travel far. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 081-justso-old-man-kangaroo.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 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 biology biology NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 4 kangaroos kangaroo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 marsupials marsupial NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 carrying carry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 amod _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 12 joeys joey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 appos _ _ 13 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 pouch pouch NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 19 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 23 springy springy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 tendons tendon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 store store VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 30 hopping hopping NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:csubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 33 very very ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 cheap cheap ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 travel travel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 acl _ _ 38 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 37 advmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | kangaroos | marsupials | | a pouch | | legs's carrying babies *nmod* | tree rules | | 2 | **carry** | gerund | | | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **have** | present | legs's long back legs | springy tendons | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tendon=Patient | | 4 | **store** | present | springy tendons | energy | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | hopping | a cheap way | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **travel** | to-infinitive | | | | | | far *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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