--- title: In Australia, kangaroos can kick and scratch hard, and in spring mag… — Wild animals: keep away, never feed · tree and pragmatics description: In Australia, kangaroos can kick and scratch hard, and in spring magpies swoop to guard their nests: cover your head, walk quickly away from the nest area, and get off and walk your bike. Who acts: kangaroos, spring magpies. 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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, spring magpies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:026-wild-animals.lesson:4 # text = In Australia, kangaroos can kick and scratch hard, and in spring magpies swoop to guard their nests: cover your head, walk quickly away from the nest area, and get off and walk your bike. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 026-wild-animals.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 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 kangaroos kangaroo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 kick kick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 scratch scratch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 9 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 magpies magpie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 swoop swoop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 guard guard VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:xcomp 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 nests nest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 21 cover cover VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 22 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 26 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 away away ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 28 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 area area NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 35 off off ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 conj _ _ 38 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 bike bike NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 . . 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 | **kick** | can | kangaroos | | | Australia | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **scratch** | infinitive | kangaroos *not said here* | | | | | hard *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **swoop** | present | spring magpies | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **guard** | to-infinitive | spring magpies *not said here* | magpies's nests | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Beneficiary | | 5 | **cover** | infinitive | spring magpies *not said here* | your head | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Destination | | 6 | **walk** | infinitive | spring magpies *not said here* | | | | | away, quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **get off** | infinitive | spring magpies *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 8 | **walk** | infinitive | spring magpies *not said here* | your bike | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bike=Trajectory | 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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