--- title: In cartoons the platypus is a funny duck-beaver that quacks; the rea… — The platypus and the echidna: mammals that lay e… · tree and pragmatics description: In cartoons the platypus is a funny duck-beaver that quacks; the real one never quacks, hunts with its eyes shut by feeling electricity, and the males carry venom. Who acts: platypus, funny duck beaver, real one, males. 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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, funny duck beaver, real one, males), 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:3 # text = In cartoons the platypus is a funny duck-beaver that quacks; the real one never quacks, hunts with its eyes shut by feeling electricity, and the males carry venom. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 cartoons cartoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 platypus platypus NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 7 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 8 duck duck NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ _ 10 beaver beaver NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 quacks quack VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 quacks quack VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 hunts hunt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 21 with with 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 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 24 shut shut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:acl 25 by by ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 feeling feeling NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl:agent _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 males male NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:compound 32 carry carry NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 venom venom NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 10 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 | the platypus | a funny duck beaver and carry venom | | cartoons | | | tree rules | | 2 | **quack** | present | a funny duck beaver and carry venom | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **quack** | present | the real one | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **hunt** | present | the real one *not said here* | | | | | with toy's eyes | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **shut** | participle | the real one *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **carry** | | the males | | | | | | tree rules | 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. 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