Mammals and how they care for their young, sentence 9
The platypus and the echidnas are mammals that lay eggs.
Who acts: platypus, mammals · What happens: be, lay · To what, where: mammals, eggs
This is a sentence of the lesson «Mammals and how they care for their young» 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, mammals), 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 | 7 mammals | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 echidnas | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 echidnas | det |
| 5 | echidnas | echidna | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 platypus | conj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 mammals | cop |
| 7 | mammals | mammal | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 lay | nsubj |
| 9 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 mammals | acl:relcl |
| 10 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lay | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 mammals | 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 and the echidnas | mammals | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lay | present | mammals | 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:world:075-mammals-and-their-young.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): no change. 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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