Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest, sentence 10

The ostrich lays the biggest egg of any living bird, weighing about as much as two dozen chicken eggs, with a shell strong enough for a person to stand on.

Who acts: ostrich, person · What happens: lay, weigh, stand on · To what, where: biggest egg, much

This is a sentence of the lesson «Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest» 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	3 lays	nsubj
3	lays	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 egg	det
5	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 egg	amod
6	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lays	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 bird	case
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 bird	det
9	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bird	amod
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 egg	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 weighing	punct
12	weighing	weigh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 lays	advcl
13	about	about	ADV	_	15 much	advmod
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 much	advmod
15	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 weighing	obj
16	as	as	ADP	_	20 eggs	case
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 dozen	compound
18	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 eggs	nummod
19	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 eggs	compound
20	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 much	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 shell	punct
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 shell	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 shell	det
24	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 weighing	obl
25	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 shell	amod
26	enough	enough	ADV	_	25 strong	advmod
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 stand	mark
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 person	det
29	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 stand	nsubj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 stand	mark
31	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 strong	advcl
32	on	on	ADP	_	31 stand	compound:prt
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lays	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lay	present	the ostrich	the biggest egg of any living bird		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result
2	weigh	gerund	the ostrich not said here	much	with a shell	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme much=Value
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:186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest.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): 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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