--- title: A platypus shuts its eyes, ears and nose under water and finds shrim… — Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus · tree and pragmatics description: A platypus shuts its eyes, ears and nose under water and finds shrimps and worms by feeling tiny electric signals from their muscles with its bill; males have a venomous spur on the back legs. Who acts: platypus, males, fur. 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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 (platypus, males, fur), 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:11 # text = A platypus shuts its eyes, ears and nose under water and finds shrimps and worms by feeling tiny electric signals from their muscles with its bill; males have a venomous spur on the back legs. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det 2 platypus platypus NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound 3 shuts shut VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 10 under under ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 shrimps shrimp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 worms worm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 17 by by SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 18 feeling feel VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 19 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 electric electric ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 signals signal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 22 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 muscles muscle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 bill bill NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 males male NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 venomous venomous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 spur spur NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 back back ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:amod 37 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **shut** | present | a platypus | fur's eyes and ears and nose | | water | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 2 | **find** | present | a platypus *not said here* | shrimps and worms | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shrimp=Topic | | 3 | **feel** | gerund | a platypus *not said here* | tiny electric signals | | platypus's muscles | | with fur's bill | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signal=Theme | | 4 | **have** | present | males | a venomous spur | | the back legs | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spur=Patient | | 5 | **bill** | | fur | | | | | | nom bill «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:11`. **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 ×2. **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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