--- title: The platypus and the echidnas (spiny anteaters of Australia and New… — One counterexample is enough · tree and pragmatics description: The platypus and the echidnas (spiny anteaters of Australia and New Guinea) are mammals that lay eggs; most mammals give birth to live young. Who acts: platypus, mammals, most mammals. 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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, mammals, most mammals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:187-one-counterexample-is-enough.lesson:13 # text = The platypus and the echidnas (spiny anteaters of Australia and New Guinea) are mammals that lay eggs; most mammals give birth to live young. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 187-one-counterexample-is-enough.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 platypus platypus NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 echidnas echidna NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 6 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 7 spiny spiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 anteaters anteater NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc 12 New New PROPN NNP _ 13 compound _ _ 13 Guinea Guinea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 14 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 15 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 mammals mammal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 17 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 22 amod _ _ 22 mammals mammal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj 24 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 live live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 young young NOUN NN _ 24 nmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23: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 and the echidnas and spiny anteaters of Australia and New Guinea | mammals | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **lay** | present | mammals | eggs | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | | 3 | **give** | present | most mammals | birth | live young | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to young=Recipient | 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:world:187-one-counterexample-is-enough.lesson:13`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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: [One counterexample is enough, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/187-one-counterexample-is-enough/12/) - next →: [One counterexample is enough, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/187-one-counterexample-is-enough/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/187-one-counterexample-is-enough/)