Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes and what is inside, sentence 3
The yolk travels down a long tube inside the hen, gets wrapped in the white and thin skins, and spends about 20 hours in the last part getting its hard shell of calcium, the same mineral as in chalk and in your bones.
Who acts: yolk · What happens: travel, get, wrap, spend · To what, where: long tube, white skins, last part, hard 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 (yolk), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 yolk | det |
| 2 | yolk | yolk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 travels | nsubj |
| 3 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 gets | conj |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 tube | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tube | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tube | amod |
| 7 | tube | tube | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 travels | obl |
| 8 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 10 hen | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hen | det |
| 10 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tube | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 down | punct |
| 12 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 gets | xcomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 skins | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 skins | det |
| 16 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 skins | amod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 thin | cc |
| 18 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 white | conj |
| 19 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 wrapped | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 spends | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 spends | cc |
| 22 | spends | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 gets | conj |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 24 20 | advmod |
| 24 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 hours | nummod |
| 25 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 spends | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 part | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 part | det |
| 28 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 part | amod |
| 29 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 spends | obl |
| 30 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 spends | advcl |
| 31 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 shell | nmod:poss |
| 32 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 shell | amod |
| 33 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 getting | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 calcium | case |
| 35 | calcium | calcium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 shell | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 mineral | punct |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 mineral | det |
| 38 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 mineral | amod |
| 39 | mineral | mineral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 calcium | appos |
| 40 | as | as | ADP | _ | 42 chalk | case |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 chalk | case |
| 42 | chalk | chalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 mineral | nmod |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 bones | cc |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 bones | case |
| 45 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 bones | nmod:poss |
| 46 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 chalk | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 travels | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | present | the yolk | a long tube inside the hen | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down tube=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | get | present | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | wrap | participle | the white skins | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in skin=Destination | |||||
| 4 | spend | present | the last part | hour | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | get | gerund | yolk's hard shell of calcium | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shell=Stimulus |
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:3.
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): R1-cc-next ×3, R5-strong ×1, 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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