Life is precious: wonder and gratitude, sentence 6
A chick grows in its egg for about three weeks and cracks the shell using a small «egg tooth» on its beak.
Who acts: chick · What happens: grow, crack, use · To what, where: egg, shell, small egg tooth
This is a sentence of the lesson «Life is precious: wonder and gratitude» of the religion ethics 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 (chick), 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 | 2 chick | det |
| 2 | chick | chick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grows | nsubj |
| 3 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 egg | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 egg | nmod:poss |
| 6 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grows | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 weeks | case |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 three | advmod |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 weeks | nummod |
| 10 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 grows | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cracks | cc |
| 12 | cracks | crack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 grows | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shell | det |
| 14 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cracks | obj |
| 15 | using | use | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 cracks | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 tooth | det |
| 17 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tooth | amod |
| 18 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 20 tooth | punct |
| 19 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tooth | compound |
| 20 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 using | obj |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 20 tooth | punct |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 beak | case |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 beak | nmod:poss |
| 24 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 » | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | a chick | chick's egg | week | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in egg=Location | |||
| 2 | crack | present | a chick not said here | the shell | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shell=Theme | ||||
| 3 | use | gerund | a chick not said here | a small egg tooth | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |
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:religion-ethics:054-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude.lesson:6.
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 ×7. 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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