Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and litres, sentence 11
Duck eggs are larger with thicker shells and bigger yolks, some breeds like the Khaki Campbell lay nearly 300 a year, and ducks lay early in the morning, so they are kept in until then.
Who acts: Duck eggs, breeds, ducks · What happens: be, lay, keep · To what, where: 300, ducks
This is a sentence of the lesson «Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and litres» 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 (Duck eggs, breeds, ducks), 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 | Duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 eggs | compound |
| 2 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 larger | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 larger | cop |
| 4 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 shells | case |
| 6 | thicker | thick | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 shells | amod |
| 7 | shells | shell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 larger | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 yolks | cc |
| 9 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 yolks | amod |
| 10 | yolks | yolk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shells | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 breeds | punct |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 breeds | det |
| 13 | breeds | breed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lay | nsubj |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 Campbell | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Campbell | det |
| 16 | Khaki | khaki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Campbell | compound |
| 17 | Campbell | Campbell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 breeds | nmod |
| 18 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 larger | parataxis |
| 19 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 20 300 | advmod |
| 20 | 300 | 300 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 lay | obj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 year | det |
| 22 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lay | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 lay | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 lay | cc |
| 25 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 lay | nsubj |
| 26 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 lay | conj |
| 27 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 lay | advmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 morning | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 morning | det |
| 30 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lay | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 kept | punct |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 kept | advmod |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 kept | aux:pass |
| 35 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 larger | conj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 38 then | case |
| 37 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 36 in | fixed |
| 38 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 kept | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 larger | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Duck eggs | with thicker shells and bigger yolks; large property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lay | present | some breeds like the Khaki Campbell | 300 | year | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 300=Result | |||
| 3 | lay | present | ducks | morning | early property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | keep | present · passive | ducks = duck | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in then=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:350-farm-animals-by-numbers-stomachs-hooves-toes-eggs-and-litres.lesson:11.
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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