Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs, sentence 13
A chicken's eyes are on the sides of its head; it turns its head to look with one eye and then the other, and it sees more colours than we do, including ultraviolet.
Who acts: eyes, it, chicken · What happens: be, turn, look, see · To what, where: sides, head, more colours
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 (eyes, it, chicken), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 chicken | det |
| 2 | chicken | chicken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 chicken | case |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sides | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sides | cop |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 sides | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sides | det |
| 8 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 turns | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 head | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sides | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 turns | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 turns | nsubj |
| 14 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 head | nmod:poss |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turns | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 look | mark |
| 18 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 turns | advcl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 eye | case |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 eye | nummod |
| 21 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 look | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 other | cc |
| 23 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 other | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 other | det |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 eye | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sees | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 sees | cc |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 sees | nsubj |
| 29 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 turns | conj |
| 30 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 colours | amod |
| 31 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 sees | obj |
| 32 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 34 do | mark |
| 33 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 do | nsubj |
| 34 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 sees | advcl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 ultraviolet | punct |
| 36 | including | including | ADP | _ | 37 ultraviolet | case |
| 37 | ultraviolet | ultraviolet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 do | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sides | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a chicken's eyes | the sides | of chicken's head | tree rules | |||
| 2 | turn | present | it | chicken's head | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme head=Result | ||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | with one eye | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | see | present | chicken | more colours | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer colour=Stimulus |
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:13.
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, R6-punct-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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