Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus, sentence 0

Most of the strange animals in this part of the zoo are marsupials, mammals whose tiny babies finish growing in a pouch, and two of them, the platypus and the echidna, are even stranger: mammals that lay eggs.

Who acts: Most, tiny babies, two, mammals · What happens: be, finish, grow, lay · To what, where: marsupials, pouch, eggs

This is a sentence of the lesson «Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus» of the biology 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 (Most, tiny babies, two, mammals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 marsupials	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 animals	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 animals	det
4	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 animals	amod
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Most	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 part	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 part	det
8	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 animals	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 zoo	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 zoo	det
11	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 part	nmod
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 marsupials	cop
13	marsupials	marsupial	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mammals	punct
15	mammals	mammal	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 marsupials	appos
16	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	18 babies	nmod:poss
17	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 babies	amod
18	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 finish	nsubj
19	finish	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 mammals	acl:relcl
20	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 finish	xcomp
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 pouch	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 pouch	det
23	pouch	pouch	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 growing	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 stranger	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 stranger	cc
26	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 stranger	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 two	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 platypus	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 platypus	det
31	platypus	platypus	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 two	appos
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 echidna	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 echidna	det
34	echidna	echidna	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 platypus	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 platypus	punct
36	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 stranger	cop
37	even	even	ADV	_	38 stranger	advmod
38	stranger	strange	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 marsupials	conj
39	:	:	PUNCT	_	38 stranger	punct
40	mammals	mammal	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 stranger	appos
41	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 lay	nsubj
42	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 mammals	acl:relcl
43	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 lay	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 marsupials	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Most of the strange animals in this part of the zoo	marsupials			tree rules
2	finish	present	tiny babies				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	grow	gerund	tiny babies not said here		a pouch		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pouch=Location
4	is	present	two of babies			strange property	tree rules
5	lay	present	mammals	eggs			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result

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, 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:biology:104-koalas-wombats-tasmanian-devils-and-the-platypus.lesson:0.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

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