--- title: An echidna has no teeth and catches ants and termites with a long st… — The platypus and the echidna: mammals that lay e… · tree and pragmatics description: An echidna has no teeth and catches ants and termites with a long sticky tongue after breaking into their nests with strong claws. Who acts: echidna. 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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 (echidna), 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:13 # text = An echidna has no teeth and catches ants and termites with a long sticky tongue after breaking into their nests with strong claws. # 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 ×1 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 echidna echidna NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 5 det _ _ 5 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 catches catch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 termites termite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 sticky sticky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 16 after after SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 17 breaking break VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 advcl _ _ 18 into into ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 nests nest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 claws claw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nmod 24 . . 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 | **have** | present | a echidna | no teeth | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | | 2 | **catch** | present | a echidna *not said here* | ants and termites | | | | with a long sticky tongue | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ant=Theme | | 3 | **break** | gerund | a echidna *not said here* | | | | | into teeth's nests *result*; with strong claws | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Agent into nest=Result with claw=Instrument | 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:13`. **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. **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 platypus and the echidna: mammals…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/43-platypus-and-echidna/12/) - next →: [The platypus and the echidna: mammals…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/43-platypus-and-echidna/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/43-platypus-and-echidna/)