The platypus and the echidna: mammals that lay eggs, sentence 14

A mother echidna lays one soft egg straight into a pouch; after about 10 days a baby the size of a jellybean, called a puggle, hatches and drinks milk there; when its own spines start to grow, the mother moves it out to a burrow.

Who acts: mother echidna, baby, own spines, mother · What happens: lay, call, hatch, drink, start, grow · To what, where: one soft egg, pouch, puggle, milk, echidna, burrow · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (mother echidna, baby, own spines, mother), 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	3 echidna	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 echidna	compound
3	echidna	echidna	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lays	nsubj
4	lays	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 egg	nummod
6	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 egg	amod
7	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lays	obj
8	straight	straight	ADV	_	11 pouch	advmod
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 pouch	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pouch	det
11	pouch	pouch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lays	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 lays	punct
13	after	after	ADP	_	16 days	case
14	about	about	ADV	_	15 10	advmod
15	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 days	nummod
16	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 hatches	obl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 baby	det
18	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hatches	nsubj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 size	det
20	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 baby	appos
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 jellybean	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 jellybean	det
23	jellybean	jellybean	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 size	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 baby	punct
25	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 baby	acl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 puggle	det
27	puggle	puggle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 called	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hatches	punct
29	hatches	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lays	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 drinks	cc
31	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 hatches	conj
32	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 drinks	obj
33	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 drinks	advmod
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 start	punct
35	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	39 start	advmod
36	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 spines	nmod:poss
37	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 spines	amod
38	spines	spine	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 start	nsubj
39	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 moves	advcl
40	to	to	PART	_	41 grow	mark
41	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 start	xcomp
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 moves	punct
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 mother	det
44	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 moves	nsubj
45	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lays	parataxis
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 moves	obj
47	out	out	ADP	_	45 moves	compound:prt
48	to	to	ADP	_	50 burrow	case
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 burrow	det
50	burrow	burrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 moves	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lays	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	lay	present	a mother echidna	one soft egg	a pouch		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result
2	call	participle	a baby not said here	a puggle			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent puggle=Recipient
3	hatch	present	a baby			day	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient
4	drink	present	a baby not said here	milk	there		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient
5	start	present	echidna's own spines				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	grow	to-infinitive	echidna's own spines not said here				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	move out	present	the mother	echidna	a burrow		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme to burrow=Trajectory

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:14.

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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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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