Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes and what is inside, sentence 14
A chick takes its first breath from the air pocket before it breaks the shell.
Who acts: chick · What happens: take, break · To what, where: first breath, air pocket, shell
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 (chick), 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 chick | det |
| 2 | chick | chick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 takes | nsubj |
| 3 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 breath | nmod:poss |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 breath | amod |
| 6 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 takes | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 pocket | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pocket | det |
| 9 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pocket | compound |
| 10 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 takes | obl | ||
| 11 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 13 breaks | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 breaks | nsubj |
| 13 | breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 takes | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 shell | det |
| 15 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 breaks | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | a chick | chick's first breath | the air pocket | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent breath=Theme from pocket=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | break | present | chick | the shell | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shell=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:14.
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): no change. 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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