Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and litres, sentence 15

Most hens have four toes, three forward and one back to grip a perch, Silkies have five, and cockerels grow a sharp spur on the back of each leg.

Who acts: Most hens, Silkies, cockerels · What happens: have, grip, grow · To what, where: four toes, perch, five, sharp spur, back

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 (Most hens, Silkies, cockerels), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 hens	amod
2	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 toes	nummod
5	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 three	punct
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 toes	nmod
8	forward	forward	ADV	_	7 three	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 one	cc
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 toes	conj
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 one	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 grip	mark
13	grip	grip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 one	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 perch	det
15	perch	perch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grip	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
17	Silkies	silky	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 have	nsubj
18	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	parataxis
19	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 have	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 grow	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 grow	cc
22	cockerels	cockerel	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 grow	nsubj
23	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 have	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 spur	det
25	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 spur	amod
26	spur	spur	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 grow	obj
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 back	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 back	det
29	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 grow	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 leg	case
31	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	32 leg	det
32	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 back	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	Most hens	four toes three		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Patient
2	grip	to-infinitive	Most hens not said here	a perch		vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perch=Experiencer
3	have	present	Silkies	five		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent five=Patient
4	grow	present	cockerels	a sharp spur	the back of each leg	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location spur=Theme

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:15.

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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