Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes and what is inside, sentence 16

In Britain eggs are sorted by weight into small, medium, large and very large, a large egg weighing roughly 63 to 73 grams, and older hens tend to lay bigger eggs.

Who acts: weight, large egg, older hens · What happens: sort, weigh, tend, lay · To what, where: eggs, Britain, 63 grams, bigger eggs

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 (weight, large egg, older hens), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 Britain	case
2	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sorted	obl
3	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sorted	nsubj:pass
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sorted	aux:pass
5	sorted	sort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 weight	case
7	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sorted	obl
8	into	into	ADP	_	9 small	case
9	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sorted	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 medium	punct
11	medium	medium	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 small	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 large	punct
13	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 small	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 large	cc
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 large	advmod
16	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 small	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 egg	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 egg	det
19	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 egg	amod
20	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 weighing	nsubj
21	weighing	weigh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 medium	advcl
22	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	23 63	advmod
23	63	63	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	26 grams	nummod
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 73	case
25	73	73	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 63	nmod
26	grams	gram	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 weighing	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 tend	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 tend	cc
29	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 hens	amod
30	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 tend	nsubj
31	tend	tend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sorted	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 lay	mark
33	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 tend	xcomp
34	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	35 eggs	amod
35	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 lay	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sorted	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sort	present · passive	weight	eggs	in Britain goal; into small	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in britain=Goal
2	weigh	gerund	a large egg	63 grams		vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme gram=Value
3	tend	present	older hens			tree rules
4	lay	to-infinitive	older hens not said here	bigger eggs		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:342-where-eggs-come-from-hens-shell-colours-sizes-and-what-is-inside.lesson:16.

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): R6-punct-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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