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title: A platypus dives with its eyes, ears and nostrils closed and finds s… — The platypus and the echidna: mammals that lay e… · tree and pragmatics
description: A platypus dives with its eyes, ears and nostrils closed and finds shrimps, worms and insect larvae with tens of thousands of sensors in its soft bill that feel movement and faint electricity. Who acts: platypus, soft bill, myth. A sentence of the lesson «The platypus and the echidna: mammals that l
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# The platypus and the echidna: mammals that lay eggs, sentence 6

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A platypus dives with its eyes, ears and nostrils closed and finds shrimps, worms and insect larvae with tens of thousands of sensors in its soft bill that feel movement and faint electricity.

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**Who acts:** platypus, soft bill, myth · **What happens:** dive, close, find, feel, bill · **To what, where:** eyes, shrimps, movement

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The platypus and the echidna: mammals that lay eggs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (platypus, soft bill, myth), 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:6
# text = A platypus dives with its eyes, ears and nostrils closed and finds shrimps, worms and insect larvae with tens of thousands of sensors in its soft bill that feel movement and faint electricity.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	platypus	platypus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dives	dive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
11	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	shrimps	shrimp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	insect	insect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	larvae	larva	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	tens	ten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	sensors	sensor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
32	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	faint	faint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dive** | present | a platypus |  |  |  |  | with myth's eyes and ears and nostrils | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **close** | participle |  | myth's eyes and ears and nostrils *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **find** | present | a platypus *not said here* | shrimps and worms and insect larvae with tens of thousands of sensors in myth's soft bill |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shrimp=Topic |
| 4 | **feel** | present | myth's soft bill | movement and faint electricity |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=Theme |
| 5 | **bill** |  | myth |  |  |  |  |  | nom bill «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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): R3-conj-first ×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.

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