Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes and what is inside, sentence 4

Crack an egg into a glass bowl and you can count its parts: the yellow yolk, the clear white, and two twisty white cords that hold the yolk in the middle like the ropes of a hammock.

Who acts: you, two twisty white cords · What happens: crack, count, hold · To what, where: egg, glass bowl, parts, yolk, middle

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 (you, two twisty white cords), 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	Crack	crack	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 egg	det
3	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Crack	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 bowl	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bowl	det
6	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bowl	compound
7	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Crack	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 count	cc
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 count	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 count	aux
11	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Crack	conj
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 parts	nmod:poss
13	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 count	obj
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 yolk	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 yolk	det
16	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 yolk	amod
17	yolk	yolk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 parts	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 white	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 white	det
20	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 white	amod
21	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 yolk	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 cords	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 cords	cc
24	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 cords	nummod
25	twisty	twisty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 cords	amod
26	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 cords	amod
27	cords	cord	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 yolk	conj
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 hold	nsubj
29	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 cords	acl:relcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 yolk	det
31	yolk	yolk	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hold	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 middle	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 middle	det
34	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hold	obl
35	like	like	ADP	_	37 ropes	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 ropes	det
37	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 hold	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 hammock	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 hammock	det
40	hammock	hammock	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 ropes	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Crack	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	crack	imperative	you not said here	a egg		into a glass bowl result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent egg=Patient into bowl=Result
2	count	can	you	bowl's parts			vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme
3	hold	present	two twisty white cords	the yolk	the middle	like the ropes of a hammock	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent yolk=Theme in middle=Location

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:4.

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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