Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs, sentence 8

A flock has a pecking order: the top hen eats first and pecks lower hens, and the phrase «pecking order» for people comes from chickens.

Who acts: flock, top hen, phrase · What happens: have, eat, peck, come · To what, where: pecking order, lower hens

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, top hen, phrase), 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	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 order	det
5	pecking	pecking	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 order	compound
6	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 eats	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hen	det
9	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hen	amod
10	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 eats	nsubj
11	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 order	parataxis
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 eats	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 pecks	cc
14	pecks	peck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 eats	conj
15	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 hens	amod
16	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 pecks	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 comes	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 comes	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 phrase	det
20	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 comes	nsubj
21	«	«	PUNCT	_	23 order	punct
22	pecking	peck	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 order	compound
23	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 phrase	appos
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	23 order	punct
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 people	case
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 order	nmod
27	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	conj
28	from	from	ADP	_	29 chickens	case
29	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 comes	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	a flock	a pecking order		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Patient
2	eat	present	the top hen		first property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	peck	present	the top hen not said here	lower hens		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Patient
4	come	present	the phrase		from chickens	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from chicken=Initial_Location

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:8.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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