The platypus and the echidna: mammals that lay eggs, sentence 2
When the first platypus skin reached Britain around 1799, a scientist looked for stitches, sure that a joker had sewn a duck's bill onto a furry animal, like a toy made from bits of two other toys.
Who acts: first platypus skin, scientist, joker, duck · What happens: reach, look, sew, make, bill · To what, where: Britain, 1799, bill, toy, bits
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 (first platypus skin, scientist, joker, duck), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 reached | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 skin | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 skin | amod |
| 4 | platypus | platypus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 skin | compound |
| 5 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reached | nsubj |
| 6 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 looked | advcl |
| 7 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 reached | obj |
| 8 | around | around | ADP | _ | 9 1799 | case |
| 9 | 1799 | 1799 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 reached | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 looked | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 scientist | det |
| 12 | scientist | scientist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 looked | nsubj |
| 13 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 stitches | case |
| 15 | stitches | stitch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 looked | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sure | punct |
| 17 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 looked | advcl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 sewn | mark |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 joker | det |
| 20 | joker | joker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sewn | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 sewn | aux |
| 22 | sewn | sew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 sure | ccomp |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 duck | det |
| 24 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bill | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 duck | case |
| 26 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sewn | obj |
| 27 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 30 animal | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 animal | det |
| 29 | furry | furry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 animal | amod |
| 30 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sewn | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 toy | punct |
| 32 | like | like | ADP | _ | 34 toy | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 toy | det |
| 34 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sewn | obl |
| 35 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 toy | acl |
| 36 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 bits | case |
| 37 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 made | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 toys | case |
| 39 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 toys | nummod |
| 40 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 toys | amod |
| 41 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 bits | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | the first platypus skin | Britain | 1799 | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent britain=Theme | |||
| 2 | look | past | a scientist | for stitches | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for stitch=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sew | past · perfect | a joker | a duck's bill | onto a furry animal; like a toy | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bill=Theme onto animal=Destination | |||
| 4 | make | participle | a toy not said here | bits of two other toys | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from bit=Material | ||||
| 5 | bill | a duck | 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:043-platypus-and-echidna.lesson:2.
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 ×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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