Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes and what is inside, sentence 8

Shell colour depends on the breed of hen; inside, a brown egg and a white egg are the same food, and as a rough rule hens with white earlobes lay white eggs and hens with red earlobes lay brown ones.

Who acts: Shell colour, brown egg, rule hens · What happens: depend, be, lay · To what, where: same food, white eggs, brown ones

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 (Shell colour, brown egg, rule 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	Shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 colour	compound
2	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 depends	nsubj
3	depends	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 breed	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 breed	det
6	breed	breed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 depends	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 hen	case
8	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 breed	nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 food	punct
10	inside	inside	ADV	_	22 food	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 inside	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 egg	det
13	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 egg	amod
14	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 food	nsubj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 egg	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 egg	det
17	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 egg	amod
18	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 egg	conj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 food	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 food	det
21	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 food	amod
22	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 depends	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hens	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 hens	cc
25	as	as	ADP	_	29 hens	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 rule	det
27	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 rule	amod
28	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hens	compound
29	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 food	appos
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 earlobes	case
31	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 earlobes	amod
32	earlobes	earlobe	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 hens	nmod
33	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 hens	acl
34	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 eggs	amod
35	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 lay	obj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 hens	cc
37	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 hens	conj
38	with	with	ADP	_	40 earlobes	case
39	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 earlobes	amod
40	earlobes	earlobe	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 hens	nmod
41	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 lay	conj
42	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 ones	amod
43	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 lay	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 depends	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	depend	present	Shell colour		on the breed of hen	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on breed=Theme
2	is a	present	a brown egg and a white egg	the same food	inside property	tree rules
3	lay	present	rule hens with white earlobes and hens with red earlobes not said here	white eggs		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result
4	lay	present	rule hens with white earlobes and hens with red earlobes not said here	brown ones		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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:8.

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 ×5, 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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