--- title: A mother platypus lays usually 1 to 3 small leathery eggs, often 2,… — The platypus and the echidna: mammals that lay e… · tree and pragmatics description: A mother platypus lays usually 1 to 3 small leathery eggs, often 2, and curls round them in a riverbank burrow for about 10 days; she has no nipples, and the babies lap milk from patches of skin. Who acts: mother platypus, bill, babies. 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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 platypus, bill, babies), 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:7 # text = A mother platypus lays usually 1 to 3 small leathery eggs, often 2, and curls round them in a riverbank burrow for about 10 days; she has no nipples, and the babies lap milk from patches of skin. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 platypus platypus NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 lays lay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 usually usually ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 6 fixed _ _ 8 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 9 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 leathery leathery ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 often often ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 appos _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 curls curl VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 18 round round ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 riverbank riverbank NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 burrow burrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 about about ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:obl 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 31 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 32 det _ _ 32 nipples nipple NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=30:punct 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 37 lap lap VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=30:conj 38 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 39 from from ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 patches patch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:nmod 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 43 . . 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 platypus | 1 3 small leathery eggs | | | | usually *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | | 2 | **curl** | present | a mother platypus *not said here* | | | a riverbank burrow | day | round platypus | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round they=Destination | | 3 | **have** | present | bill | no nipples | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nipple=Patient | | 4 | **lap** | present | the babies | milk | | patches of skin | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient | 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:7`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/43-platypus-and-echidna/6/) - next →: [The platypus and the echidna: mammals…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/43-platypus-and-echidna/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/43-platypus-and-echidna/)