Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes and what is inside, sentence 7

A modern laying hen can lay about 300 eggs a year, nearly one a day, because farmers kept the best layers for hundreds of years; her wild ancestor, the red junglefowl, lays only a few clutches of about five or six.

Who acts: modern laying hen, farmers, wild ancestor · What happens: lay about, keep, lay · To what, where: 300 eggs, best layers, few clutches

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 (modern laying hen, farmers, wild ancestor), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hen	det
2	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hen	amod
3	laying	laying	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hen	compound
4	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lay	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 lay	aux
6	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	about	about	ADV	_	8 300	advmod
8	300	300	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 eggs	nummod
9	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lay	obj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 year	det
11	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lay	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 day	punct
13	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	14 one	advmod
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 day	nummod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 day	det
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lay	obl:unmarked
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 kept	punct
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	20 kept	mark
19	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 kept	nsubj
20	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lay	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 layers	det
22	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 layers	amod
23	layers	layer	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 kept	obj
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 hundreds	case
25	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 kept	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 years	case
27	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 hundreds	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 lays	punct
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 ancestor	nmod:poss
30	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 ancestor	amod
31	ancestor	ancestor	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 lays	nsubj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 junglefowl	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 junglefowl	det
34	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 junglefowl	amod
35	junglefowl	junglefowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ancestor	appos
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 ancestor	punct
37	lays	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 kept	conj
38	only	only	ADV	_	41 clutches	advmod
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 clutches	det
40	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 clutches	amod
41	clutches	clutch	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 lays	obj
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 five	case
43	about	about	ADV	_	44 five	advmod
44	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 clutches	nmod
45	or	or	CCONJ	_	46 six	cc
46	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 five	conj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lay	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lay about	can	a modern laying hen	300 eggs	day; year		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result
2	keep	past	farmers	the best layers		for hundreds of years	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent layer=Theme
3	lay	present	hen's wild ancestor	a few clutches of five			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clutch=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:7.

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 ×2, 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.

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