--- title: Real biology: dingoes are Australia's wild dogs, which came with peo… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-S… · tree and pragmatics description: Real biology: dingoes are Australia's wild dogs, which came with people thousands of years ago and really do hunt kangaroos; but kangaroos got their long legs over millions of years, not in one afternoon's chase. Who acts: dingoes, wild dogs, kangaroos, one afternoon. 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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 (dingoes, wild dogs, kangaroos, one afternoon), 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:20 # text = Real biology: dingoes are Australia's wild dogs, which came with people thousands of years ago and really do hunt kangaroos; but kangaroos got their long legs over millions of years, not in one afternoon's chase. # 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): R5-strong ×2 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 biology biology NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 4 dingoes dingo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 6 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 15 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 18 ago ago ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advmod 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 really really ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 hunt hunt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 23 kangaroos kangaroo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 kangaroos kangaroo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 28 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 31 over over ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 36 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 38 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 39 afternoon afternoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod:poss _ _ 40 's 's PART POS _ 39 case _ _ 41 chase chase NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:conj 42 . . 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 | dingoes | Australia's wild dogs | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **come** | past | Australia's wild dogs | | | | | with people; ago *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **hunt** | present · do-support | Australia's wild dogs *not said here* | kangaroos | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kangaroo=Theme | | 4 | **get** | past | kangaroos | biology's long legs | | millions of years | | in one afternoon's chase | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=Stimulus | | 5 | **chase** | | one afternoon | | | | | | nom chase «act 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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