The platypus and the echidna: mammals that lay eggs, sentence 4

Mammals have fur or hair and feed their babies milk; it is a myth that all mammals give birth to live young, because monotremes lay eggs.

Who acts: Mammals, monotremes · What happens: have, feed, be, give, live, lay · To what, where: fur, babies milk, myth, birth, eggs

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 (Mammals, monotremes), 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	Mammals	mammal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 hair	cc
5	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fur	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 feed	cc
7	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	conj
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 milk	nmod:poss
9	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 milk	compound
10	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feed	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 myth	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 myth	expl
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 myth	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 myth	det
15	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	parataxis
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 give	mark
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 mammals	det
18	mammals	mammal	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 give	nsubj
19	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 myth	csubj
20	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 give	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 live	mark
22	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 birth	acl
23	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 live	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lay	punct
25	because	because	SCONJ	_	27 lay	mark
26	monotremes	monotreme	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 lay	nsubj
27	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 give	advcl
28	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 lay	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Mammals	fur or hair		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fur=Patient
2	feed	present	Mammals not said here	Mammals's babies milk		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent milk=Theme
3	is a	present		a myth		tree rules
4	give	present	all mammals	birth		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birth=Theme
5	live	to-infinitive	all mammals not said here	birth not said here	young property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	lay	present	monotremes	eggs		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result

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:4.

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, 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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