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title: A platypus has a broad flat tail, and a koala has only a tiny stump… — Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: A platypus has a broad flat tail, and a koala has only a tiny stump of a tail hidden in its fur. Who acts: platypus, koala. A sentence of the lesson «Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the year's myths put right» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the year's myths put right, sentence 9

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A platypus has a broad flat tail, and a koala has only a tiny stump of a tail hidden in its fur.

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**Who acts:** platypus, koala · **What happens:** have, hide · **To what, where:** broad flat tail, tiny stump, tail, fur

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the year's myths put right» 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 (platypus, koala), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:117-zoos-around-the-world-and-myths-put-right.lesson:9
# text = A platypus has a broad flat tail, and a koala has only a tiny stump of a tail hidden in its fur.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 117-zoos-around-the-world-and-myths-put-right.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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	platypus	platypus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	koala	koala	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	stump	stump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a platypus | a broad flat tail |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | a koala | a tiny stump of a tail |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stump=Patient |
| 3 | **hide** | participle |  | a tail *not said here* |  | platypus's fur |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in fur=Location |

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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.

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**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:117-zoos-around-the-world-and-myths-put-right.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): R2-punct-next ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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