Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs, sentence 4

A hen lays eggs with or without a rooster; shop eggs are not fertilised, because no rooster mated with the hen, so they could never hatch.

Who acts: hen, eggs, rooster, hens · What happens: lay, not fertilise, mate, not hatch · To what, where: eggs, shop eggs

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 (hen, eggs, rooster, 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 hen	det
2	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lays	nsubj
3	lays	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lays	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	9 rooster	case
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 with	cc
7	without	without	ADP	_	5 with	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 rooster	det
9	rooster	rooster	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lays	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 lays	punct
11	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 eggs	compound
12	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fertilised	nsubj:pass
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 fertilised	aux:pass
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 fertilised	advmod
15	fertilised	fertilise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 eggs	acl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 rooster	punct
17	because	because	SCONJ	_	20 mated	mark
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 rooster	det
19	rooster	rooster	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 mated	nsubj
20	mated	mate	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 fertilised	advcl
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 hen	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hen	det
23	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 mated	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hatch	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	29 hatch	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 hatch	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 hatch	aux
28	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 hatch	advmod
29	hatch	hatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lays	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lays	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lay	present	a hen	eggs	with a rooster	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result
2	not fertilise	present · passive	eggs not said here	shop eggs		tree rules
3	mate	past	no rooster		with the hen	vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with hen=Co-Patient
4	not hatch	could	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:4.

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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