Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs, sentence 14

Chickens make more than twenty calls, with different alarms for danger from the air and from the ground, and a hen has a special call to tell her chicks she has found food.

Who acts: Chickens, hen, phrase · What happens: make, have, tell, find · To what, where: twenty calls, special call, chicks, food · Speech: someone speaks here

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, 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 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	5 twenty	advmod
4	than	than	ADP	_	3 more	fixed
5	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 calls	nummod
6	calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 alarms	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 alarms	case
9	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 alarms	amod
10	alarms	alarm	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 calls	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 danger	case
12	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 alarms	nmod
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 air	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 air	det
15	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 danger	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 ground	cc
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 ground	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ground	det
19	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 air	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 has	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 has	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 hen	det
23	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 has	nsubj
24	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 make	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 call	det
26	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 call	amod
27	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 has	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 tell	mark
29	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 call	acl
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 chicks	nmod:poss
31	chicks	chick	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 tell	obj
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 found	nsubj
33	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 found	aux
34	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 tell	ccomp
35	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 found	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 make	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	make	present	Chickens	twenty calls and different alarms for danger from the air and the ground		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Product
2	have	present	a hen	a special call		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Patient
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	a hen not said here	a special call not said here	phrase's chicks	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent chick=Recipient clause=Topic
4	find	present · perfect	phrase	food		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic

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:14.

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. 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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