Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes and what is inside, sentence 13
A shell has thousands of tiny pores; over weeks water escapes, the air pocket at the blunt end grows, and a very old egg floats in water while a fresh one lies flat on the bottom.
Who acts: shell, water, air pocket, old egg, fresh one · What happens: have, escape, grow, float, lie · To what, where: thousands, water, bottom
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 (shell, water, air pocket, old egg), 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 shell | det |
| 2 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 pores | case |
| 6 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pores | amod |
| 7 | pores | pore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 thousands | nmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 escapes | punct |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 weeks | case |
| 10 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 water | obl |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 escapes | nsubj |
| 12 | escapes | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thousands | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pocket | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pocket | det |
| 15 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pocket | compound |
| 16 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 grows | nsubj | ||
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 end | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 end | det |
| 19 | blunt | blunt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 end | amod |
| 20 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pocket | nmod |
| 21 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 escapes | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 floats | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 floats | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 egg | det |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 old | advmod |
| 26 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 egg | amod |
| 27 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 floats | nsubj |
| 28 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 grows | conj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 water | case |
| 30 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 floats | obl |
| 31 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 35 lies | mark |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 one | det |
| 33 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 one | amod |
| 34 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 lies | nsubj |
| 35 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 floats | advcl |
| 36 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 lies | xcomp |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 bottom | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 bottom | det |
| 39 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 lies | obl |
| 40 | . | . | 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 shell | thousands of tiny pores | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Patient | ||||
| 2 | escape | present | water | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | grow | present | the air pocket at the blunt end | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | float | present | a old egg | water | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | lie | present | a fresh one | the bottom | flat property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bottom=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:13.
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, 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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