The platypus and the echidna: mammals that lay eggs, sentence 17
Attenborough's long-beaked echidna was filmed alive for the first time in 2023, after decades with no proof that it still existed.
Who acts: echidna · What happens: beak, film, exist · To what, where: long beaked echidna, 2023, proof
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 (echidna), 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 | Attenborough | Attenborough | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 echidna | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Attenborough | case |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 echidna | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 long | punct |
| 5 | beaked | beak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 echidna | amod |
| 6 | echidna | echidna | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 filmed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 filmed | aux:pass |
| 8 | filmed | film | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 filmed | xcomp |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 12 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 time | amod |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 filmed | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 2023 | case |
| 15 | 2023 | 2023 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 filmed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 decades | punct |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 18 decades | case |
| 18 | decades | decade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 filmed | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 proof | case |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 proof | det |
| 21 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 decades | nmod |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 existed | mark |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 existed | nsubj |
| 24 | still | still | ADV | _ | 25 existed | advmod |
| 25 | existed | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 proof | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 filmed | 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 | beak | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | film | past · passive | Attenborough's long beaked echidna | 2023 | decade; time | alive property | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in 2023=Destination | ||
| 3 | exist | past | echidna | no proof not said here | still | tree rules |
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:17.
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. 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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