--- title: A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jelly bean; it crawls into… — Mammals and how they care for their young · tree and pragmatics description: A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jelly bean; it crawls into its mother's pouch, drinks milk there for months, and only then hops out into the world. Who acts: newborn kangaroo, elephant. 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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 (newborn kangaroo, elephant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:075-mammals-and-their-young.lesson:4 # text = A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jelly bean; it crawls into its mother's pouch, drinks milk there for months, and only then hops out into the world. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 075-mammals-and-their-young.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 newborn newborn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 kangaroo kangaroo NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 about about ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 jelly jelly NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 bean bean NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 crawls crawl VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 15 into into ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 's 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 pouch pouch NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 21 drinks drink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 22 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 21 advmod _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 only only ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 then then ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 hops hop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 31 out out ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 32 into into ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | a newborn kangaroo | the size | | | | of a jelly bean; about *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **crawl** | present | elephant | | | elephant's mother's pouch | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into pouch=Destination | | 3 | **drink** | present | elephant *not said here* | milk | | there | month | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient | | 4 | **hop** | present | elephant *not said here* | | | the world | then | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into world=Destination | 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:world:075-mammals-and-their-young.lesson:4`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Mammals and how they care for their yo…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/75-mammals-and-their-young/3/) - next →: [Mammals and how they care for their yo…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/75-mammals-and-their-young/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/75-mammals-and-their-young/)