Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs, sentence 12

Foxes hunt chickens, which cannot fly well and sleep deeply at night, so a hen house must be shut every evening.

Who acts: Foxes, chickens · What happens: hunt, not fly, sleep, shut · To what, where: chickens, hen house

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 (Foxes, chickens), 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	Foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hunt	nsubj
2	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hunt	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fly	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 fly	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 fly	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 fly	advmod
8	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 chickens	acl:relcl
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 fly	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sleep	cc
11	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 fly	conj
12	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	11 sleep	advmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 night	case
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sleep	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 shut	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	22 shut	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 house	det
18	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 house	compound
19	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shut	nsubj:pass
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 shut	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 shut	aux:pass
22	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 hunt	parataxis
23	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 evening	det
24	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shut	obl:unmarked
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hunt	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	present	Foxes	chickens			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chicken=Theme
2	not fly	can	chickens			well property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sleep	infinitive	chickens not said here		night	deeply property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	shut	must · passive		a hen house	evening		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

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:12.

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, 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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