Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes and what is inside, sentence 12
An egg has a yellow yolk, the food store for a chick, a clear white that is mostly water and protein and cushions it, and two twisty cords called chalazae that hold the yolk in the middle.
Who acts: egg, clear white, two twisty cords · What happens: have, be, cushion, call, hold · To what, where: yellow yolk, water, yolk, chalazae, middle · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (egg, clear white, two twisty cords), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 egg | det |
| 2 | egg | egg | 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 yolk | det |
| 5 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 yolk | amod |
| 6 | yolk | yolk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 store | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 store | det |
| 9 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 store | compound |
| 10 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 yolk | appos |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 chick | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 chick | det |
| 13 | chick | chick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 store | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 white | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 white | det |
| 16 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 white | amod |
| 17 | white | white | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 yolk | conj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 water | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 water | cop |
| 20 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 21 water | advmod |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 white | acl:relcl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 protein | cc |
| 23 | protein | protein | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 water | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 cushions | cc |
| 25 | cushions | cushion | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 water | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 cushions | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 cords | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 cords | cc |
| 29 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 cords | nummod |
| 30 | twisty | twisty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 cords | amod |
| 31 | cords | cord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| 32 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 cords | acl |
| 33 | chalazae | chalazae | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 called | xcomp |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 hold | nsubj |
| 35 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 cords | acl:relcl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 yolk | det |
| 37 | yolk | yolk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 hold | obj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 middle | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 middle | det |
| 40 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 hold | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a egg | a yellow yolk and a clear white | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a clear white | water and protein | mostly property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | cushion | present | a clear white not said here | yolk | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | call | participle | two twisty cords not said here | chalazae | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | hold | present | two twisty cords | the yolk | the middle | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent yolk=Theme in middle=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:342-where-eggs-come-from-hens-shell-colours-sizes-and-what-is-inside.lesson:12.
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. 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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/342-where-eggs-come-from-hens-shell-colours-sizes-and-what-is-inside/12/