Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus, sentence 11
A platypus shuts its eyes, ears and nose under water and finds shrimps and worms by feeling tiny electric signals from their muscles with its bill; males have a venomous spur on the back legs.
Who acts: platypus, males, fur · What happens: shut, find, feel, have, bill · To what, where: eyes, water, shrimps, tiny electric signals, muscles, venomous spur
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 (platypus, males, fur), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 platypus | det |
| 2 | platypus | platypus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shuts | nsubj |
| 3 | shuts | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shuts | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ears | punct |
| 7 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 eyes | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 nose | cc |
| 9 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eyes | conj |
| 10 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shuts | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 finds | cc |
| 13 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 shuts | conj |
| 14 | shrimps | shrimp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 finds | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 worms | cc |
| 16 | worms | worm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 shrimps | conj |
| 17 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 18 feeling | mark |
| 18 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 finds | advcl |
| 19 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 signals | amod |
| 20 | electric | electric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 signals | amod |
| 21 | signals | signal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 feeling | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 muscles | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 muscles | nmod:poss |
| 24 | muscles | muscle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 feeling | obl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 bill | case |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 bill | nmod:poss |
| 27 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 feeling | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 have | punct |
| 29 | males | male | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 have | nsubj |
| 30 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 shuts | parataxis |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 spur | det |
| 32 | venomous | venomous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 spur | amod |
| 33 | spur | spur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 have | obj |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 legs | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 legs | det |
| 36 | back | back | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 legs | compound |
| 37 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 spur | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shuts | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut | present | a platypus | fur's eyes and ears and nose | water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||
| 2 | find | present | a platypus not said here | shrimps and worms | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shrimp=Topic | ||||
| 3 | feel | gerund | a platypus not said here | tiny electric signals | platypus's muscles | with fur's bill | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signal=Theme | ||
| 4 | have | present | males | a venomous spur | the back legs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spur=Patient | |||
| 5 | bill | fur | nom bill «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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: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 ×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.
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