The African savanna area: hippos, meerkats, ostriches, wild dogs and hyenas, sentence 11

The ostrich is the biggest living bird and lays the biggest egg, as heavy as about 20 to 24 hen's eggs, with a shell strong enough for a person to stand on.

Who acts: ostrich, person · What happens: be, lay, stand on · To what, where: biggest living bird, biggest egg

This is a sentence of the lesson «The African savanna area: hippos, meerkats, ostriches, wild dogs and hyenas» 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 (ostrich, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ostrich	det
2	ostrich	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bird	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bird	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bird	det
5	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 bird	amod
6	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bird	amod
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 lays	cc
9	lays	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bird	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 egg	det
11	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 egg	amod
12	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lays	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 heavy	punct
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 heavy	advmod
15	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 egg	amod
16	as	as	ADP	_	23 eggs	case
17	about	about	ADV	_	18 20	advmod
18	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 eggs	nummod
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 24	case
20	24	24	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 20	nmod
21	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 eggs	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 hen	case
23	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 heavy	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 shell	punct
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 shell	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 shell	det
27	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lays	obl
28	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 shell	amod
29	enough	enough	ADV	_	28 strong	advmod
30	for	for	SCONJ	_	34 stand	mark
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 person	det
32	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 stand	nsubj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 stand	mark
34	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 strong	advcl
35	on	on	ADP	_	34 stand	compound:prt
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 bird	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the ostrich	the biggest living bird		tree rules
2	lay	present	the ostrich not said here	the biggest egg	with a shell	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result
3	stand on	to-infinitive	a person			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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, 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:102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches.lesson:11.

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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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