The platypus and the echidna: mammals that lay eggs, sentence 0

Mammals are animals with fur or hair that feed their babies milk, and almost all of them give birth to live babies, but five strange Australian and New Guinean animals lay eggs instead.

Who acts: Mammals, animals, all, five strange Australian animals · What happens: be, feed, give, live, lay · To what, where: animals, babies milk, birth, eggs

This is a sentence of the lesson «The platypus and the echidna: mammals that lay eggs» 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 (Mammals, animals, all, five strange Australian animals), 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	Mammals	mammal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 animals	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 animals	cop
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 fur	case
5	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 animals	nmod
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 hair	cc
7	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fur	conj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 feed	nsubj
9	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 animals	acl:relcl
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 milk	nmod:poss
11	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 milk	compound
12	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 feed	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 give	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 give	cc
15	almost	almost	ADV	_	16 all	advmod
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 give	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 all	nmod
19	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 feed	conj
20	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 give	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 live	mark
22	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 babies	amod
23	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 give	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 lay	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 lay	cc
26	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 animals	nummod
27	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 animals	amod
28	Australian	Australian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 animals	amod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 New	cc
30	New	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Australian	conj
31	Guinean	guinean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Australian	conj
32	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 lay	nsubj
33	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 animals	conj
34	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 lay	obj
35	instead	instead	ADV	_	33 lay	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 animals	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Mammals	animals	with fur or hair	tree rules
2	feed	present	animals	Mammals's babies milk		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent milk=Theme
3	give	present	all	birth	live babies obl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birth=Theme
4	live	to-infinitive				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	lay	present	five strange Australian animals	eggs	instead property	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:043-platypus-and-echidna.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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

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