Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes and what is inside, sentence 9

Breeds such as the Araucana and the Cream Legbar lay blue or greenish eggs, and in a blue egg the colour goes right through the shell, while brown is mostly on the outside layers.

Who acts: Breeds, colour, brown · What happens: lay, go, be · To what, where: blue eggs, blue egg, outside layers

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 (Breeds, colour, brown), 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	Breeds	breed	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lay	nsubj
2	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	5 Araucana	case
3	as	as	ADP	_	2 such	fixed
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Araucana	det
5	Araucana	Araucana	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Breeds	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Cream	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Legbar	det
8	Cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Araucana	conj
9	Legbar	Legbar	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Araucana	flat
10	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 eggs	amod
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 greenish	cc
13	greenish	greenish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 blue	conj
14	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lay	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 goes	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 goes	cc
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 egg	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 egg	det
19	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 egg	amod
20	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 goes	obl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 colour	det
22	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 goes	nsubj
23	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 lay	conj
24	right	right	ADV	_	27 shell	advmod
25	through	through	ADP	_	27 shell	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 shell	det
27	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 goes	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 layers	punct
29	while	while	SCONJ	_	36 layers	mark
30	brown	brown	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 layers	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 layers	cop
32	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	36 layers	advmod
33	on	on	ADP	_	36 layers	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 layers	det
35	outside	outside	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 layers	amod
36	layers	layer	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lay	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 lay	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	present	Breeds such the Araucana and Cream	blue eggs			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result
2	go	present	the colour		a blue egg	through the shell	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through shell=Initial_Location
3	is	present	brown		the outside layers	mostly property	tree rules

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:9.

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 ×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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