Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs, sentence 15
Shell colour, white, brown or even blue, depends on the breed and often matches the hen's earlobes, but the egg inside is the same.
Who acts: Shell colour, egg · What happens: depend, match, be · To what, where: earlobes
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 (Shell colour, egg), 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 | Shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 colour | compound |
| 2 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 depends | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 white | punct |
| 4 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 colour | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 brown | punct |
| 6 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 white | conj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 blue | cc |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 blue | advmod |
| 9 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 white | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 colour | punct |
| 11 | depends | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 breed | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 breed | det |
| 14 | breed | breed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 depends | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 matches | cc |
| 16 | often | often | ADV | _ | 17 matches | advmod |
| 17 | matches | match | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 depends | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hen | det |
| 19 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 earlobes | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 hen | case |
| 21 | earlobes | earlobe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 matches | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 same | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 same | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 egg | det |
| 25 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 same | nsubj |
| 26 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 25 egg | advmod |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 same | cop |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 same | det |
| 29 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 depends | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 depends | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depend | present | Shell colour | on the breed | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on breed=Theme | ||||
| 2 | match | present | Shell colour not said here | the hen's earlobes | often property | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earlobe=Patient | |||
| 3 | is | present | the egg | same 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:15.
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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