Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents, sentence 7
A chicken egg takes about 21 days to hatch if kept warm; the chick cracks the shell with a hard tip on its beak called the egg tooth, and supermarket eggs never hatch because no rooster was there.
Who acts: chicken egg, chick, beak, supermarket eggs, rooster · What happens: take, hatch, keep, crack, call, not hatch · To what, where: shell, egg tooth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents» 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 (chicken egg, chick, beak, supermarket eggs), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 egg | det |
| 2 | chicken | chicken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 egg | compound |
| 3 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 takes | nsubj |
| 4 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 21 | advmod |
| 6 | 21 | 21 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 days | nummod |
| 7 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 takes | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 hatch | mark |
| 9 | hatch | hatch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 takes | advcl |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 kept | mark |
| 11 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 hatch | advcl |
| 12 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 kept | xcomp |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 cracks | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chick | det |
| 15 | chick | chick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cracks | nsubj |
| 16 | cracks | crack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 takes | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 shell | det |
| 18 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cracks | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 tip | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 tip | det |
| 21 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 tip | amod |
| 22 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cracks | obl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 beak | case |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 beak | nmod:poss |
| 25 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tip | nmod |
| 26 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 beak | acl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 tooth | det |
| 28 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 tooth | compound |
| 29 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 called | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 hatch | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 hatch | cc |
| 32 | supermarket | supermarket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 eggs | compound |
| 33 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 hatch | nsubj |
| 34 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 35 hatch | advmod |
| 35 | hatch | hatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 takes | conj |
| 36 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 40 there | mark |
| 37 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 38 rooster | det |
| 38 | rooster | rooster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 there | nsubj |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 there | cop |
| 40 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 takes | advcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | a chicken egg | day | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hatch | to-infinitive | a chicken egg not said here | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | keep a condition, not said to happen | participle | a chicken egg not said here | warm property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | crack | present | the chick | the shell | with a hard tip on chick's beak | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent shell=Patient with tip=Instrument | |||
| 5 | call | participle | chick's beak not said here | the egg tooth | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tooth=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | not hatch | present | supermarket eggs | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 7 | is | past | no rooster | there 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:049-babies.lesson:7.
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 ×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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