The platypus and the echidna: mammals that lay eggs, sentence 9

In 2020 scientists found that platypus fur glows blue-green under ultraviolet light; nobody yet knows whether the glow is useful to the animal.

Who acts: scientists, platypus fur, nobody, glow · What happens: find, glow, know, be · To what, where: 2020, ultraviolet light · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (scientists, platypus fur, nobody, glow), 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	_	3 scientists	case
2	2020	2020	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 found	obl
3	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 glows	mark
6	platypus	platypus	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fur	compound
7	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 glows	nsubj
8	glows	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 found	ccomp
9	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 green	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 blue	punct
11	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 glows	xcomp
12	under	under	ADP	_	14 light	case
13	ultraviolet	ultraviolet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 light	amod
14	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 glows	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 knows	punct
16	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 knows	nsubj
17	yet	yet	ADV	_	18 knows	advmod
18	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 glows	conj
19	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	23 useful	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 glow	det
21	glow	glow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 useful	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 useful	cop
23	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 knows	ccomp
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 animal	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 animal	det
26	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 useful	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 found	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	scientists	2020				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	glow	present	platypus fur		ultraviolet light		green property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under light=Location
3	know	present	nobody			yet		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	present	the glow				to the animal; useful property	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:9.

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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