--- title: Mammals have fur or hair and feed their babies milk; it is a myth th… — The platypus and the echidna: mammals that lay e… · tree and pragmatics description: Mammals have fur or hair and feed their babies milk; it is a myth that all mammals give birth to live young, because monotremes lay eggs. Who acts: Mammals, monotremes. 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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, monotremes), 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:4 # text = Mammals have fur or hair and feed their babies milk; it is a myth that all mammals give birth to live young, because monotremes lay eggs. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Mammals mammal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 feed feed VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 8 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 compound _ _ 10 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 myth myth NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 18 det _ _ 18 mammals mammal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:acl 20 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 acl _ _ 23 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 because because SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 monotremes monotreme NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advcl 28 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | Mammals | fur or hair | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fur=Patient | | 2 | **feed** | present | Mammals *not said here* | Mammals's babies milk | | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent milk=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | | a myth | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **give** | present | all mammals | birth | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birth=Theme | | 5 | **live** | to-infinitive | all mammals *not said here* | birth *not said here* | | | | young *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **lay** | present | monotremes | eggs | | | | | 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:4`. **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, 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…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/43-platypus-and-echidna/3/) - next →: [The platypus and the echidna: mammals…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/43-platypus-and-echidna/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/43-platypus-and-echidna/)