Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs, sentence 5
Modern hens can lay around three hundred eggs a year, while wild junglefowl lay only a few dozen.
Who acts: Modern hens, wild junglefowl · What happens: lay around, lay · To what, where: hundred eggs, few dozen
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 (Modern hens, wild junglefowl), 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 | Modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 hens | amod |
| 2 | hens | hen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 lay | aux |
| 4 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | around | around | ADV | _ | 7 hundred | advmod |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 hundred | compound |
| 7 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 eggs | nummod |
| 8 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lay | obj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 year | det |
| 10 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eggs | nmod:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 junglefowl | punct |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 lay | mark |
| 13 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 junglefowl | amod |
| 14 | junglefowl | junglefowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lay | nsubj |
| 15 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lay | advcl |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 dozen | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 dozen | det |
| 18 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 dozen | amod |
| 19 | dozen | dozen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lay | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay around | can | Modern hens | hundred eggs a year | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | ||||
| 2 | lay | present | wild junglefowl | a few dozen | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dozen=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:5.
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 ×4. 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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