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title: Marsupials, such as kangaroos and koalas, carry their tiny newborns… — Mammals and how they care for their young · tree and pragmatics
description: Marsupials, such as kangaroos and koalas, carry their tiny newborns in a pouch. Who acts: Marsupials. A sentence of the lesson «Mammals and how they care for their young» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Mammals and how they care for their young, sentence 8

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Marsupials, such as kangaroos and koalas, carry their tiny newborns in a pouch.

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**Who acts:** Marsupials · **What happens:** carry · **To what, where:** tiny newborns, pouch

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Mammals and how they care for their young» 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 (Marsupials), 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:8
# text = Marsupials, such as kangaroos and koalas, carry their tiny newborns in a pouch.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	Marsupials	marsupial	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	5	case	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	3	fixed	_	_
5	kangaroos	kangaroo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc
7	koalas	koala	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	newborns	newborn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	pouch	pouch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **carry** | present | Marsupials such kangaroos and koalas | marsupials's tiny newborns |  | a pouch |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent newborn=Value 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:075-mammals-and-their-young.lesson:8`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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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