Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs, sentence 7
Chickens scratch and peck for seeds, worms and insects; they are omnivores and will even eat mice and small frogs.
Who acts: Chickens, hens · What happens: scratch, peck, be, eat · To what, where: omnivores, mice
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 (Chickens, 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 | 2 scratch | nsubj |
| 2 | scratch | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 peck | cc |
| 4 | peck | peck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 scratch | conj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 seeds | case |
| 6 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 peck | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 worms | punct |
| 8 | worms | worm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 seeds | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 insects | cc |
| 10 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 seeds | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 omnivores | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 omnivores | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 omnivores | cop |
| 14 | omnivores | omnivore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 scratch | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 eat | cc |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 eat | aux |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 eat | advmod |
| 18 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 omnivores | conj |
| 19 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 eat | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 frogs | cc |
| 21 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 frogs | amod |
| 22 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 mice | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 scratch | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scratch | present | Chickens | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | peck | present | Chickens not said here | for seeds and worms and insects | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | hens = hen | omnivores | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | eat | future | hens = hen not said here | mice and small frogs | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=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:7.
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 ×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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