Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs, sentence 2

Chickens were tamed from a wild bird of Asian forests, the red junglefowl, which lays only a few dozen eggs a year, but today's farm hens lay almost one every day, with or without a rooster.

Who acts: red junglefowl, farm hens · What happens: tame, lay · To what, where: Chickens, few dozen eggs, one

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 (red junglefowl, farm hens), 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	3 tamed	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tamed	aux:pass
3	tamed	tame	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 bird	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bird	det
6	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bird	amod
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tamed	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 forests	case
9	Asian	Asian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 forests	amod
10	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bird	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 junglefowl	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 junglefowl	det
13	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 junglefowl	amod
14	junglefowl	junglefowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bird	appos
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lays	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 lays	nsubj
17	lays	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 junglefowl	acl:relcl
18	only	only	ADV	_	21 dozen	advmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 eggs	det
20	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 eggs	amod
21	dozen	dozen	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 eggs	compound
22	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 lays	obj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 year	det
24	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lays	obl:unmarked
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 lay	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 lay	cc
27	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hens	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 today	case
29	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hens	compound
30	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 lay	nsubj
31	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tamed	conj
32	almost	almost	ADV	_	33 one	advmod
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 lay	obj
34	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	35 day	det
35	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lay	obl:unmarked
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 rooster	punct
37	with	with	ADP	_	41 rooster	case
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	39 without	cc
39	without	without	ADP	_	37 with	conj
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 rooster	det
41	rooster	rooster	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tamed	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tamed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	tame	past · passive		Chickens		from a wild bird of Asian forests; with a rooster	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with rooster=Instrument
2	lay	present	the red junglefowl	a few dozen eggs	year		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result
3	lay	present	today's farm hens	one	day		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Result

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:2.

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 ×2, 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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