Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs, sentence 9

A broody hen, one that wants to sit on eggs, keeps her eggs warm for about three weeks, and before hatching the chicks peep inside the shell and the hen clucks back.

Who acts: broody hen, hen · What happens: want, sit, keep, hatch, peep, cluck back · To what, where: eggs, chicks

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 (broody hen, hen), 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	3 hen	det
2	broody	broody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hen	amod
3	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 keeps	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hen	appos
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 wants	nsubj
7	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 one	acl:relcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 sit	mark
9	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wants	xcomp
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 eggs	case
11	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sit	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hen	punct
13	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 eggs	nmod:poss
15	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 keeps	obj
16	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 keeps	xcomp
17	for	for	ADP	_	20 weeks	case
18	about	about	ADV	_	19 three	advmod
19	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 weeks	nummod
20	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 keeps	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 peep	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 peep	cc
23	before	before	SCONJ	_	24 hatching	mark
24	hatching	hatch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Ger	27 peep	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 chicks	det
26	chicks	chick	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 hatching	obj
27	peep	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 keeps	conj
28	inside	inside	ADP	_	30 shell	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 shell	det
30	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 peep	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 clucks	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 hen	det
33	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 clucks	nsubj
34	clucks	cluck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 peep	conj
35	back	back	ADV	_	34 clucks	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 keeps	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	sit not said to happen	to-infinitive			eggs			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on egg=Location
3	keep	present	a broody hen	phrase's eggs		week	warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme
4	hatch	gerund		the chicks				vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent chick=Product
5	peep	present	a broody hen not said here				inside the shell	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent inside shell=Theme
6	cluck back	present	the hen					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:9.

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): R1-cc-next ×2, 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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