Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes and what is inside, sentence 10

A hen lays eggs whether or not there is a cockerel, and most shop eggs were never fertilised, so they have no chick inside.

Who acts: hen, cockerel, eggs · What happens: lay, be, not fertilise, have · To what, where: eggs, most shop eggs, chick

This is a sentence of the lesson «Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes and what is inside» 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, cockerel, eggs), 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	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lays	obj
5	whether	whether	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	9 is	mark
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 whether	fixed
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 cockerel	advmod
8	there	there	PRON	_	9 is	expl
9	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lays	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cockerel	det
11	cockerel	cockerel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 is	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fertilised	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fertilised	cc
14	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 eggs	amod
15	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 eggs	compound
16	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 fertilised	nsubj:pass
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 fertilised	aux:pass
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 fertilised	advmod
19	fertilised	fertilise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 lays	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 have	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	23 have	advmod
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 have	nsubj
23	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 fertilised	conj
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 chick	det
25	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 have	obj
26	inside	inside	ADV	_	23 have	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lays	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	present	a hen	eggs			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result
2	be	present	a cockerel		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not fertilise	past · passive		most shop eggs			tree rules
4	have	present	eggs = egg	no chick		inside property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chick=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:342-where-eggs-come-from-hens-shell-colours-sizes-and-what-is-inside.lesson:10.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×4, 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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