The platypus and the echidna: mammals that lay eggs, sentence 6
A platypus dives with its eyes, ears and nostrils closed and finds shrimps, worms and insect larvae with tens of thousands of sensors in its soft bill that feel movement and faint electricity.
Who acts: platypus, soft bill, myth · What happens: dive, close, find, feel, bill · To what, where: eyes, shrimps, movement
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, soft bill, myth), 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 | 2 platypus | det |
| 2 | platypus | platypus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dives | nsubj |
| 3 | dives | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 eyes | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dives | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ears | punct |
| 8 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 eyes | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 nostrils | cc |
| 10 | nostrils | nostril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 eyes | conj |
| 11 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 eyes | acl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 finds | cc |
| 13 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 dives | conj |
| 14 | shrimps | shrimp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 finds | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 worms | punct |
| 16 | worms | worm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 shrimps | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 larvae | cc |
| 18 | insect | insect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 larvae | compound |
| 19 | larvae | larva | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 shrimps | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 tens | case |
| 21 | tens | ten | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 larvae | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 thousands | case |
| 23 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 tens | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 sensors | case |
| 25 | sensors | sensor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 thousands | nmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 bill | case |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 bill | nmod:poss |
| 28 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 bill | amod |
| 29 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tens | nmod |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 feel | nsubj |
| 31 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 bill | acl:relcl |
| 32 | movement | movement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 feel | obj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 electricity | cc |
| 34 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 electricity | amod |
| 35 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 movement | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dives | 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 | dive | present | a platypus | with myth's eyes and ears and nostrils | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | close | participle | myth's eyes and ears and nostrils not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | find | present | a platypus not said here | shrimps and worms and insect larvae with tens of thousands of sensors in myth's soft bill | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shrimp=Topic | ||||
| 4 | feel | present | myth's soft bill | movement and faint electricity | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=Theme | ||||
| 5 | bill | myth | 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:6.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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