Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs, sentence 10

Chickens bathe in dry dust, which cleans their feathers and gets rid of mites, tiny biting bugs, and a dust-bathing hen can look half dead though she is perfectly happy.

Who acts: Chickens, dry dust, bathing hen, phrase · What happens: bathe, clean, get, look, be · To what, where: feathers, rid

This is a sentence of the lesson «Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs» 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 (Chickens, dry dust, bathing hen, phrase), 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	Chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bathe	nsubj
2	bathe	bathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 dust	case
4	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dust	amod
5	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bathe	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cleans	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 cleans	nsubj
8	cleans	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dust	acl:relcl
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 feathers	nmod:poss
10	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cleans	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 gets	cc
12	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cleans	conj
13	rid	rid	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gets	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 mites	case
15	mites	mite	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 rid	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 bugs	punct
17	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 bugs	amod
18	biting	biting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 bugs	amod
19	bugs	bug	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 mites	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 look	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 look	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 hen	det
23	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bathing	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 dust	punct
25	bathing	bathing	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hen	compound
26	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 look	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 look	aux
28	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 gets	parataxis
29	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	30 dead	advmod
30	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 look	xcomp
31	though	though	SCONJ	_	35 happy	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 happy	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 happy	cop
34	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	35 happy	advmod
35	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 look	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bathe	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bathe	present	Chickens		in dry dust	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in dust=Theme
2	clean	present	dry dust	hens's feathers		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent feather=Patient
3	get	present	dry dust not said here	rid		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rid=Stimulus
4	look	can	a bathing hen		dead property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	is	present	phrase		happy, perfectly property	tree rules

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:212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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