Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen zoos, sentence 17
Some rare birds lay a second egg if the first is taken, so a zoo can hatch two chicks instead of one.
Who acts: rare birds, zoo · What happens: lay, take, hatch · To what, where: second egg, first, two chicks
This is a sentence of the lesson «Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen zoos» 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 (rare birds, zoo), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 birds | det |
| 2 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 birds | amod |
| 3 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 egg | det |
| 6 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 egg | amod |
| 7 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obj |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 taken | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 first | det |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 taken | aux:pass |
| 12 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 lay | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hatch | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 hatch | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 zoo | det |
| 16 | zoo | zoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hatch | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 hatch | aux |
| 18 | hatch | hatch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 lay | conj |
| 19 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 chicks | nummod |
| 20 | chicks | chick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 hatch | obj |
| 21 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 23 one | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 instead | fixed |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 hatch | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | some rare birds | a second egg | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | ||||
| 2 | take a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | the first | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hatch | can | a zoo | two chicks | instead one | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent chick=Product |
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:113-breeding-programmes-for-rare-animals.lesson:17.
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): 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.
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