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title: Kangaroos and koalas are marsupials: their babies grow in a pouch. — The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand · tree and pragmatics
description: Kangaroos and koalas are marsupials: their babies grow in a pouch. Who acts: Kangaroos, babies. A sentence of the lesson «The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, sentence 16

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Kangaroos and koalas are marsupials: their babies grow in a pouch.

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**Who acts:** Kangaroos, babies · **What happens:** be, grow · **To what, where:** marsupials, pouch

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kangaroos, babies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:045-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz.lesson:16
# text = Kangaroos and koalas are marsupials: their babies grow in a pouch.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 045-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz.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	Kangaroos	kangaroo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	koalas	koala	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	marsupials	marsupial	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	pouch	pouch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Kangaroos and koalas | marsupials |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | present | kangaroos's babies |  |  | a pouch |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pouch=Location |

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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.

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**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:world:045-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz.lesson:16`.

**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): R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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