--- title: The platypus is a mammal with fur that feeds its young milk, yet it… — Classifying unusual animals · tree and pragmatics description: The platypus is a mammal with fur that feeds its young milk, yet it lays eggs, and a starfish and a jellyfish are not fish at all, because they have no backbone and no gills. Who acts: platypus, fur, starfish. 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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, fur, starfish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:029-classifying-unusual-animals.lesson:4 # text = The platypus is a mammal with fur that feeds its young milk, yet it lays eggs, and a starfish and a jellyfish are not fish at all, because they have no backbone and no gills. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 029-classifying-unusual-animals.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 platypus platypus NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 mammal mammal NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 feeds feed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 lays lay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 17 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 starfish starfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=21:cc 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 jellyfish jellyfish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 25 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 28 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 27 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 because because SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 34 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 35 det _ _ 35 backbone backbone NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 38 det _ _ 38 gills gill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 conj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9: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 mammal | | | | with fur | tree rules | | 2 | **feed** | present | fur | platypus's young milk | | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent milk=Theme | | 3 | **lay** | present | platypus | eggs | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | | 4 | **not** **is a** | present | a starfish and a jellyfish | fish | | all | | | tree rules | | 5 | **have** | present | starfish | no backbone and no gills | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent backbone=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:world:029-classifying-unusual-animals.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-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: [Classifying unusual animals, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/29-classifying-unusual-animals/3/) - next →: [Classifying unusual animals, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/29-classifying-unusual-animals/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/29-classifying-unusual-animals/)