--- title: Most of the strange animals in this part of the zoo are marsupials,… — Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus · tree and pragmatics description: Most of the strange animals in this part of the zoo are marsupials, mammals whose tiny babies finish growing in a pouch, and two of them, the platypus and the echidna, are even stranger: mammals that lay eggs. Who acts: Most, tiny babies, two, mammals. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Most, tiny babies, two, mammals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:104-koalas-wombats-tasmanian-devils-and-the-platypus.lesson:0 # text = Most of the strange animals in this part of the zoo are marsupials, mammals whose tiny babies finish growing in a pouch, and two of them, the platypus and the echidna, are even stranger: mammals that lay eggs. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 104-koalas-wombats-tasmanian-devils-and-the-platypus.lesson # annotation = 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 13 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 det _ _ 8 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 zoo zoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 marsupials marsupial NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 mammals mammal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 appos _ _ 16 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 finish finish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 20 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 xcomp _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 pouch pouch NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=13:punct 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 26 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 nsubj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 platypus platypus NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 appos _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 echidna echidna NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 36 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 37 even even ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 stranger strange ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 conj _ _ 39 : : PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 40 mammals mammal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:conj 41 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 42 nsubj _ _ 42 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 acl:relcl _ _ 43 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obj _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **is a** | present | Most of the strange animals in this part of the zoo | marsupials | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **finish** | present | tiny babies | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **grow** | gerund | tiny babies *not said here* | | | a pouch | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pouch=Location | | 4 | **is** | present | two of babies | | | | | strange *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:104-koalas-wombats-tasmanian-devils-and-the-platypus.lesson:0`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×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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