--- title: A mother echidna lays one soft egg straight into a pouch; after abou… — The platypus and the echidna: mammals that lay e… · tree and pragmatics description: A mother echidna lays one soft egg straight into a pouch; after about 10 days a baby the size of a jellybean, called a puggle, hatches and drinks milk there; when its own spines start to grow, the mother moves it out to a burrow. Who acts: mother echidna, baby, own spines, mother. 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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 (mother echidna, baby, own spines, mother), 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:14 # text = A mother echidna lays one soft egg straight into a pouch; after about 10 days a baby the size of a jellybean, called a puggle, hatches and drinks milk there; when its own spines start to grow, the mother moves it out to a burrow. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 echidna echidna NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 lays lay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 6 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 straight straight ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 9 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 pouch pouch NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 13 after after ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 about about ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:nmod 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 jellybean jellybean NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 25 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 puggle puggle NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 29 hatches hatch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 drinks drink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 32 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 31 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:advmod 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 35 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 39 advmod _ _ 36 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 spines spine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 39 start start VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 advcl _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 xcomp _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 45 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 46 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 obj _ _ 47 out out ADP RP _ 45 compound:prt _ _ 48 to to ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 burrow burrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 51 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lay** | present | a mother echidna | one soft egg | | a pouch | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | | 2 | **call** | participle | a baby *not said here* | a puggle | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent puggle=Recipient | | 3 | **hatch** | present | a baby | | | | day | | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **drink** | present | a baby *not said here* | milk | | there | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient | | 5 | **start** | present | echidna's own spines | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **grow** | to-infinitive | echidna's own spines *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **move out** | present | the mother | echidna | | a burrow | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme to burrow=Trajectory | 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:14`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The platypus and the echidna: mammals…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/43-platypus-and-echidna/13/) - next →: [The platypus and the echidna: mammals…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/43-platypus-and-echidna/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/43-platypus-and-echidna/)