Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs, sentence 6

Roosters crow at many times of day, not only at dawn, to claim their territory, and a study reported that a rooster partly closes its ear canals when crowing so it does not deafen itself.

Who acts: Roosters, study, rooster · What happens: crow, claim, report, close, not deafen · To what, where: territory, ear canals, rooster

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 (Roosters, study, rooster), 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	Roosters	rooster	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 crow	nsubj
2	crow	crow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 times	case
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 times	amod
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 crow	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 day	case
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 times	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dawn	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 dawn	advmod
10	only	only	ADV	_	12 dawn	advmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 dawn	case
12	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crow	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 claim	punct
14	to	to	PART	_	15 claim	mark
15	claim	claim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 crow	advcl
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 territory	nmod:poss
17	territory	territory	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 claim	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 reported	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 reported	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 study	det
21	study	study	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 reported	nsubj
22	reported	report	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 crow	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 closes	mark
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 rooster	det
25	rooster	rooster	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 closes	nsubj
26	partly	partly	ADV	_	27 closes	advmod
27	closes	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 reported	ccomp
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 canals	nmod:poss
29	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 canals	compound
30	canals	canal	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 closes	obj
31	when	when	SCONJ	_	32 crowing	mark
32	crowing	crow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 closes	advcl
33	so	so	SCONJ	_	37 deafen	mark
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 deafen	nsubj
35	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 deafen	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 deafen	advmod
37	deafen	deafen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 crowing	advcl
38	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	37 deafen	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 crow	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	crow	present	Roosters		dawn; time		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	claim speech: other	to-infinitive	Roosters not said here	hens's territory			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent territory=Topic
3	report	past	a study				vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	close	present	a rooster	rooster's ear canals		partly property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canal=Patient
5	crow	gerund	a rooster not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not deafen	present · do-support	rooster	rooster			vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent itself=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:6.

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, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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