--- title: Mammals are animals with fur or hair that feed their babies milk, an… — The platypus and the echidna: mammals that lay e… · tree and pragmatics description: Mammals are animals with fur or hair that feed their babies milk, and almost all of them give birth to live babies, but five strange Australian and New Guinean animals lay eggs instead. Who acts: Mammals, animals, all, five strange Australian animals. 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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 (Mammals, animals, all, five strange Australian animals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:043-platypus-and-echidna.lesson:0 # text = Mammals are animals with fur or hair that feed their babies milk, and almost all of them give birth to live babies, but five strange Australian and New Guinean animals lay eggs instead. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 043-platypus-and-echidna.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Mammals mammal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 feed feed VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 compound _ _ 12 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 15 almost almost ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 19 nsubj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nmod _ _ 19 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 20 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:xcomp 23 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obj 24 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 26 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:nsubj 27 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 28 Australian Australian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 New new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 conj _ _ 31 Guinean guinean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:amod 32 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 34 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 35 instead instead ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | Mammals | animals | | | | with fur or hair | tree rules | | 2 | **feed** | present | animals | Mammals's babies milk | | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent milk=Theme | | 3 | **give** | present | all | birth | | | | live babies *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birth=Theme | | 4 | **live** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **lay** | present | five strange Australian animals | eggs | | | | instead *property* | 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:043-platypus-and-echidna.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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The capybara: the calmest animal, frie…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/42-the-capybara/18/) - next →: [The platypus and the echidna: mammals…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/43-platypus-and-echidna/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/43-platypus-and-echidna/)