The platypus and the echidna: mammals that lay eggs, sentence 3
In cartoons the platypus is a funny duck-beaver that quacks; the real one never quacks, hunts with its eyes shut by feeling electricity, and the males carry venom.
Who acts: platypus, funny duck beaver, real one, males · What happens: be, quack, not quack, hunt, shut, carry · To what, where: funny duck beaver, cartoons
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, funny duck beaver, real one, males), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 cartoons | case |
| 2 | cartoons | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 beaver | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 platypus | det |
| 4 | platypus | platypus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 beaver | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 beaver | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 beaver | det |
| 7 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 beaver | amod |
| 8 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 beaver | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 duck | punct |
| 10 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 quacks | nsubj |
| 12 | quacks | quack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 beaver | acl:relcl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 one | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 one | det |
| 15 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 one | amod |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 quacks | nsubj |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 quacks | advmod |
| 18 | quacks | quack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 beaver | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hunts | punct |
| 20 | hunts | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 quacks | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 eyes | case |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hunts | obl |
| 24 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 hunts | advcl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 electricity | case |
| 26 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 electricity | compound |
| 27 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shut | obl:agent |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 venom | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 venom | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 males | det |
| 31 | males | male | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 carry | nsubj |
| 32 | carry | carry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 venom | compound |
| 33 | venom | venom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 beaver | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 beaver | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the platypus | a funny duck beaver and carry venom | cartoons | tree rules | |||
| 2 | quack | present | a funny duck beaver and carry venom | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not quack | present | the real one | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | hunt | present | the real one not said here | with toy's eyes | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | shut | participle | the real one not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | carry | the males | 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:3.
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 ×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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