White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey to Africa, sentence 11

Storks usually lay about 3 to 5 eggs, both parents take turns sitting on them, the chicks hatch after about a month and fly at about 2 months old.

Who acts: Storks, parents, turns, chicks · What happens: lay about, take, sit, hatch, fly · To what, where: 3 eggs, turns

This is a sentence of the lesson «White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey to Africa» 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 (Storks, parents, turns, chicks), 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	Storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lay	nsubj
2	usually	usually	ADV	_	3 lay	advmod
3	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 3	advmod
5	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 eggs	nummod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 5	case
7	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 3	nmod
8	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lay	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 take	punct
10	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	11 parents	det
11	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 take	nsubj
12	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	parataxis
13	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 take	obj
14	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 turns	acl
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sitting	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hatch	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 chicks	det
19	chicks	chick	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 hatch	nsubj
20	hatch	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	conj
21	after	after	ADP	_	24 month	case
22	about	about	ADV	_	24 month	advmod
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 month	det
24	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hatch	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 fly	cc
26	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 hatch	conj
27	at	at	ADP	_	30 months	case
28	about	about	ADV	_	29 2	advmod
29	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	30 months	nummod
30	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 fly	obl
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 fly	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lay about	present	Storks	3 eggs		usually property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result
2	take	present	both parents	turns			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme
3	sit	gerund	turns not said here			on parents = parent	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on they=Location
4	hatch	present	the chicks		month		vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent
5	fly	present	the chicks not said here		month	old property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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:375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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