Myth check: do ostriches bury their heads in the sand?, sentence 10

An ostrich egg is the largest egg of any living bird, about 15 centimetres long and as heavy as about 20 to 24 hen's eggs; its shell is so strong that a grown-up can stand on it.

Who acts: ostrich egg, shell · What happens: be, grow up, stand · To what, where: largest egg

This is a sentence of the lesson «Myth check: do ostriches bury their heads in the sand?» 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 egg, shell), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 egg	det
2	ostrich	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 egg	compound
3	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 egg	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 egg	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 egg	det
6	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 egg	amod
7	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 bird	case
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 bird	det
10	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bird	amod
11	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 egg	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 centimetres	punct
13	about	about	ADV	_	14 15	advmod
14	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 centimetres	nummod
15	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 long	obl:unmarked
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 egg	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 heavy	cc
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 heavy	advmod
19	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 long	conj
20	as	as	ADP	_	27 eggs	case
21	about	about	ADV	_	22 20	advmod
22	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	27 eggs	nummod
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 24	case
24	24	24	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 20	nmod
25	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 eggs	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 hen	case
27	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 heavy	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 strong	punct
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 shell	nmod:poss
30	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 strong	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 strong	cop
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 strong	advmod
33	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 heavy	conj
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 stand	mark
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 up	det
36	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 stand	nsubj
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 up	punct
38	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 grown	compound:prt
39	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 stand	aux
40	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 strong	advcl
41	on	on	ADP	_	42 it	case
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 stand	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 egg	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a ostrich egg	the largest egg	of any living bird	tree rules
2	is	present	bird's shell		strong property	tree rules
3	grow up	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stand	can			on bird	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on it=Location

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:151-ostriches-and-heads-in-the-sand.lesson:10.

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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×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.

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