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title: Most mammals grow inside the mother and are born alive; marsupials s… — Mammals and how they care for their young · tree and pragmatics
description: Most mammals grow inside the mother and are born alive; marsupials such as kangaroos are born tiny and keep growing in the mother's pouch; and a few mammals, the platypus and the echidnas, lay eggs but still feed milk. Who acts: Most mammals, few mammals. A sentence of the lesson «Mammals and how th
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# Mammals and how they care for their young, sentence 1

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Most mammals grow inside the mother and are born alive; marsupials such as kangaroos are born tiny and keep growing in the mother's pouch; and a few mammals, the platypus and the echidnas, lay eggs but still feed milk.

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**Who acts:** Most mammals, few mammals · **What happens:** grow, bear, keep, lay, feed · **To what, where:** marsupials, pouch, eggs, milk

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Mammals and how they care for their young» of the world 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 (Most mammals, few mammals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:075-mammals-and-their-young.lesson:1
# text = Most mammals grow inside the mother and are born alive; marsupials such as kangaroos are born tiny and keep growing in the mother's pouch; and a few mammals, the platypus and the echidnas, lay eggs but still feed milk.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 075-mammals-and-their-young.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	mammals	mammal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
10	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
12	marsupials	marsupial	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	15	case	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	kangaroos	kangaroo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
18	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
21	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	xcomp	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	pouch	pouch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	mammals	mammal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=43:nsubj
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	platypus	platypus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	echidnas	echidna	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	conj	_	_
40	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	_
41	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	still	still	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	feed	feed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
44	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
45	.	.	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 | **grow** | present | Most mammals |  |  |  |  | inside the mother | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside mother=Location |
| 2 | **bear** | present · passive | Most mammals *not said here* |  |  |  |  | alive *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» |
| 3 | **bear** | present · passive |  | marsupials such kangaroos |  |  |  | tiny *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **keep** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **grow** | gerund |  |  |  | the mother's pouch |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pouch=Location |
| 6 | **lay** | present | a few mammals and the platypus and the echidnas | eggs |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result |
| 7 | **feed** | present | Most mammals *not said here* | milk |  |  | still |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent milk=Theme |

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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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**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:075-mammals-and-their-young.lesson:1`.

**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 ×1, 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/).

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