Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat, sentence 9
A hen lays about one egg a day in good times, with or without a cockerel; shop eggs are not fertilised and could never hatch.
Who acts: hen · What happens: lay about, not fertilise, not hatch · To what, where: one egg, shop eggs
This is a sentence of the lesson «Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat» 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 (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 | 2 hen | det |
| 2 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lays | nsubj |
| 3 | lays | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 one | advmod |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 egg | nummod |
| 6 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lays | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 day | det |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lays | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 times | case |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 times | amod |
| 11 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lays | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cockerel | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 cockerel | case |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 without | cc |
| 15 | without | without | ADP | _ | 13 with | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 cockerel | det |
| 17 | cockerel | cockerel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 times | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 fertilised | punct |
| 19 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 eggs | compound |
| 20 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 fertilised | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 fertilised | aux:pass |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 fertilised | advmod |
| 23 | fertilised | fertilise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 lays | parataxis |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 hatch | cc |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 hatch | aux |
| 26 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 27 hatch | advmod |
| 27 | hatch | hatch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 fertilised | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lays | 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 about | present | a hen | one egg | day; time | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | |||
| 2 | not fertilise | present · passive | shop eggs | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not hatch | could | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=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:287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat.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 ×2, 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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