Classifying unusual animals, sentence 4
The platypus is a mammal with fur that feeds its young milk, yet it lays eggs, and a starfish and a jellyfish are not fish at all, because they have no backbone and no gills.
Who acts: platypus, fur, starfish · What happens: be, feed, lay, not be, have · To what, where: mammal, young milk, eggs, fish, all, backbone
This is a sentence of the lesson «Classifying unusual animals» of the world 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, fur, starfish), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 platypus | det |
| 2 | platypus | platypus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mammal | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mammal | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 mammal | det |
| 5 | mammal | mammal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 fur | case |
| 7 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mammal | nmod |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 feeds | nsubj |
| 9 | feeds | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fur | acl:relcl |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 milk | nmod:poss |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 milk | amod |
| 12 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 feeds | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lays | punct |
| 14 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 16 lays | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 lays | nsubj |
| 16 | lays | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 feeds | conj |
| 17 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lays | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 fish | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 starfish | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 starfish | det |
| 21 | starfish | starfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fish | nsubj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 jellyfish | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 jellyfish | det |
| 24 | jellyfish | jellyfish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 starfish | conj |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 fish | cop |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 fish | advmod |
| 27 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lays | conj |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 all | case |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 fish | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 have | punct |
| 31 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 33 have | mark |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 have | nsubj |
| 33 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 feeds | advcl |
| 34 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 35 backbone | det |
| 35 | backbone | backbone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 have | obj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 gills | cc |
| 37 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 38 gills | det |
| 38 | gills | gill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 backbone | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mammal | 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 mammal | with fur | tree rules | |||
| 2 | feed | present | fur | platypus's young milk | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent milk=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lay | present | platypus | eggs | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | ||||
| 4 | not is a | present | a starfish and a jellyfish | fish | all | tree rules | |||
| 5 | have | present | starfish | no backbone and no gills | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent backbone=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:world:029-classifying-unusual-animals.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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