Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight, sentence 9
Supermarket eggs never hatch because the hens live without a cockerel, and a hen lays about one egg a day.
Who acts: Supermarket eggs, hens, hen · What happens: not hatch, live, lay about · To what, where: one egg
This is a sentence of the lesson «Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight» 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 (Supermarket eggs, hens, 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 | Supermarket | supermarket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 eggs | compound |
| 2 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hatch | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 hatch | advmod |
| 4 | hatch | hatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 live | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hens | det |
| 7 | hens | hen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 live | nsubj |
| 8 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hatch | advcl |
| 9 | without | without | ADP | _ | 11 cockerel | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cockerel | det |
| 11 | cockerel | cockerel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 live | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lays | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lays | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 hen | det |
| 15 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lays | nsubj |
| 16 | lays | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hatch | conj |
| 17 | about | about | ADV | _ | 18 one | advmod |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 egg | nummod |
| 19 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lays | obj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 day | det |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lays | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hatch | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hatch | present | Supermarket eggs | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | live | present | the hens | without a cockerel | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lay about | present | a hen | one egg | day | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result |
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:033-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight.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): R7-rel-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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