Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes and what is inside, sentence 19
An egg takes about a day to make, with about 20 hours spent getting its shell, which is mostly calcium, so hens need lots of calcium and backyard hens are given crushed oyster shell.
Who acts: egg, 20 hours, shell, hens · What happens: take, make, spend, get, be, need · To what, where: shell, calcium, lots, backyard hens
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, 20 hours, shell, 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 egg | det |
| 2 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 takes | nsubj |
| 3 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 day | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 takes | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 make | mark |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 takes | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 spent | punct |
| 10 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 14 spent | mark |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 20 | advmod |
| 12 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 hours | nummod |
| 13 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 spent | nsubj |
| 14 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 make | advcl |
| 15 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 spent | advcl |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 shell | nmod:poss |
| 17 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 getting | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 calcium | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 calcium | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 calcium | cop |
| 21 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 22 calcium | advmod |
| 22 | calcium | calcium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shell | acl:relcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 need | punct |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 need | advmod |
| 25 | hens | hen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 need | nsubj |
| 26 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 getting | conj |
| 27 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 need | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 calcium | case |
| 29 | calcium | calcium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lots | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 given | cc |
| 31 | backyard | backyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 hens | compound |
| 32 | hens | hen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 given | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 given | aux:pass |
| 34 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 need | conj |
| 35 | crushed | crush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 shell | amod |
| 36 | oyster | oyster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 shell | compound |
| 37 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 given | obj |
| 38 | . | . | 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 egg | day | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | a egg not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 3 | spend | past | 20 hours | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | get | gerund | 20 hours not said here | germ's shell | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shell=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | germ's shell | calcium | mostly property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | need | present | hens | lots of calcium | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lot=Theme | ||||
| 7 | give | present · passive | backyard hens | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient shell=Theme | |||||
| 8 | crush | participle | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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:19.
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): R7-rel-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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