Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs, sentence 3

A flock is a little society with a pecking order, more than twenty different calls and mothers that talk to their chicks before they even hatch.

Who acts: flock, twenty different calls, hens · What happens: be, talk, hatch · To what, where: little society

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 (flock, twenty different calls, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 flock	det
2	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 society	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 society	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 society	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 society	amod
6	society	society	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 order	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 order	det
9	pecking	pecking	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 order	compound
10	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 society	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 more	punct
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 society	conj
13	than	than	ADP	_	16 calls	case
14	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 calls	nummod
15	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 calls	amod
16	calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 more	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 mothers	cc
18	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 calls	conj
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 talk	nsubj
20	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 calls	acl:relcl
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 chicks	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 chicks	nmod:poss
23	chicks	chick	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 talk	obl
24	before	before	SCONJ	_	27 hatch	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 hatch	nsubj
26	even	even	ADV	_	27 hatch	advmod
27	hatch	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 talk	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 society	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a flock	a little society	with a pecking order	tree rules
2	be		a flock not said here		than twenty different calls and mothers	tree rules
3	talk	present	twenty different calls and mothers		to mothers's chicks	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to chick=Co-Agent
4	hatch	present	hens = hen			vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=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:3.

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): 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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