The platypus and the echidna: mammals that lay eggs, sentence 7

A mother platypus lays usually 1 to 3 small leathery eggs, often 2, and curls round them in a riverbank burrow for about 10 days; she has no nipples, and the babies lap milk from patches of skin.

Who acts: mother platypus, bill, babies · What happens: lay, curl, have, lap · To what, where: 1 3 small leathery eggs, riverbank burrow, nipples, milk, patches

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 (mother platypus, bill, babies), 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	3 platypus	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 platypus	compound
3	platypus	platypus	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lays	nsubj
4	lays	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	usually	usually	ADV	_	4 lays	advmod
6	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 eggs	nummod
7	to	to	ADP	_	6 1	fixed
8	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 eggs	nummod
9	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 eggs	amod
10	leathery	leathery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 eggs	amod
11	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lays	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 2	punct
13	often	often	ADV	_	14 2	advmod
14	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 eggs	appos
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 curls	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 curls	cc
17	curls	curl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lays	conj
18	round	round	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 curls	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 burrow	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 burrow	det
22	riverbank	riverbank	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 burrow	compound
23	burrow	burrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 curls	obl
24	for	for	ADP	_	27 days	case
25	about	about	ADV	_	26 10	advmod
26	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	27 days	nummod
27	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 curls	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 has	punct
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 has	nsubj
30	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lays	parataxis
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 nipples	det
32	nipples	nipple	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 has	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 lap	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 lap	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 babies	det
36	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 lap	nsubj
37	lap	lap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lays	conj
38	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 lap	obj
39	from	from	ADP	_	40 patches	case
40	patches	patch	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 lap	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 skin	case
42	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 patches	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lays	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	present	a mother platypus	1 3 small leathery eggs			usually property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result
2	curl	present	a mother platypus not said here		a riverbank burrow	day	round platypus	vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round they=Destination
3	have	present	bill	no nipples				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nipple=Patient
4	lap	present	the babies	milk	patches of skin			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient

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:7.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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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