The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing hands, sentence 14

Chickens scratch the ground for seeds, worms and insects like their wild ancestor, the red junglefowl of Asian forests, and there are more chickens than any other bird.

Who acts: Chickens, more chickens · What happens: scratch, be · To what, where: ground

This is a sentence of the lesson «The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing hands» 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 (Chickens, more chickens), 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	Chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 scratch	nsubj
2	scratch	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ground	det
4	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scratch	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 seeds	case
6	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 scratch	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 worms	punct
8	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 seeds	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 insects	cc
10	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 seeds	conj
11	like	like	ADP	_	14 ancestor	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 ancestor	nmod:poss
13	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ancestor	amod
14	ancestor	ancestor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seeds	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 junglefowl	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 junglefowl	det
17	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 junglefowl	amod
18	junglefowl	junglefowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ancestor	appos
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 forests	case
20	Asian	Asian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 forests	amod
21	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 junglefowl	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 are	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 are	cc
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 are	expl
25	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 scratch	conj
26	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 chickens	amod
27	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 are	nsubj
28	than	than	ADP	_	31 bird	case
29	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	31 bird	det
30	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 bird	amod
31	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 chickens	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 scratch	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scratch	present	Chickens	the ground				for seeds like Chickens's wild ancestor and worms and insects	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Theme
2	does	present	more chickens than any other bird			there			vn exist-47.1 «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:096-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands.lesson:14.

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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