The platypus and the echidna: mammals that lay eggs, sentence 11

A platypus stuffs food from the riverbed into its cheek pouches and chews it at the surface with hard horny pads, because adults have no teeth; it must come up to breathe, so filling the pouches saves trips.

Who acts: platypus, adults, food, filling · What happens: stuff, chew, have, come up, breathe, fill · To what, where: food, riverbed, surface, teeth, pouches, trips

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 (platypus, adults, food, filling), 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 stuffs	nsubj
3	stuffs	stuff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stuffs	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 riverbed	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 riverbed	det
7	riverbed	riverbed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stuffs	obl
8	into	into	ADP	_	11 pouches	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 pouches	nmod:poss
10	cheek	cheek	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pouches	compound
11	pouches	pouch	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stuffs	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 chews	cc
13	chews	chew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stuffs	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 chews	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 surface	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 surface	det
17	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 chews	obl
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 pads	case
19	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 pads	amod
20	horny	horny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 pads	amod
21	pads	pad	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 chews	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 have	punct
23	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 have	mark
24	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 have	nsubj
25	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 chews	advcl
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 teeth	det
27	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 have	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 come	punct
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 come	nsubj
30	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 come	aux
31	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stuffs	parataxis
32	up	up	ADV	_	31 come	advmod
33	to	to	PART	_	34 breathe	mark
34	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 come	advcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 filling	punct
36	so	so	ADV	_	40 saves	advmod
37	filling	fill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 saves	csubj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 pouches	det
39	pouches	pouch	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 filling	obj
40	saves	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 come	parataxis
41	trips	trip	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 saves	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stuffs	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	stuff	present	a platypus	food	the riverbed	into riverbed's cheek pouches	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent food=Theme into pouch=Destination
2	chew	present	a platypus not said here	food	the surface	with hard horny pads	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	have	present	adults	no teeth			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient
4	come up	must	food				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	breathe	to-infinitive	food not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	fill	gerund		the pouches			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pouch=Patient
7	save	present	filling	trips			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trip=Theme

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: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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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