--- title: Old Man Kangaroo is chased from the middle of Australia, mostly hot… — The map of the Just So Stories: from the North A… · tree and pragmatics description: Old Man Kangaroo is chased from the middle of Australia, mostly hot desert and dry grassland, past the Flinders and the Darling Downs; most Australians live near the coasts, where it rains more. Who acts: most Australians, it. 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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 (most Australians, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:061-the-map-of-the-just-so-stories-from-the-north-atlantic-to-the-limpopo-and-surrey.lesson:11 # text = Old Man Kangaroo is chased from the middle of Australia, mostly hot desert and dry grassland, past the Flinders and the Darling Downs; most Australians live near the coasts, where it rains more. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 061-the-map-of-the-just-so-stories-from-the-north-atlantic-to-the-limpopo-and-surrey.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:amod 2 Man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Kangaroo Kangaroo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 chased chase VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 desert desert NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 grassland grassland NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 past past ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Flinders Flinders PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 Darling darling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 Downs Downs PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 27 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 28 amod _ _ 28 Australians australian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 30 near near ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 coasts coast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 36 advmod _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 rains rain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 37 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 36 advmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **chase** | present · passive | | Man Kangaroo | | the middle of Australia | | past the Flinders and the Darling Downs | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme from middle=Trajectory | | 2 | **live** | present | most Australians | | | the coasts | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near coast=Location | | 3 | **rain** | present | it | | | | | | vn weather-57 «It V PP.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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:geography:061-the-map-of-the-just-so-stories-from-the-north-atlantic-to-the-limpopo-and-surrey.lesson:11`. **The tree:** 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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