Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes and what is inside, sentence 17
An ostrich egg holds as much as about two dozen hen's eggs, and a hummingbird egg is about the size of a jellybean.
Who acts: ostrich egg, hummingbird egg · What happens: hold, be · To what, where: much, size
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 (ostrich egg, hummingbird 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 egg | det |
| 2 | ostrich | ostrich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 egg | compound |
| 3 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 holds | nsubj |
| 4 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 holds | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 eggs | case |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 two | advmod |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 dozen | compound |
| 10 | dozen | dozen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 hen | nummod |
| 11 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 eggs | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 hen | case |
| 13 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 much | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 size | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 size | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 egg | det |
| 17 | hummingbird | hummingbird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 egg | compound |
| 18 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 size | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 size | cop |
| 20 | about | about | ADV | _ | 22 size | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 size | det |
| 22 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 holds | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 jellybean | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 jellybean | det |
| 25 | jellybean | jellybean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 size | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 holds | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present | a ostrich egg | much | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a hummingbird egg | the size | of a jellybean; about property | tree rules |
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:17.
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 ×3. 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/17/