Life cycles, sentence 14
A hen's egg must be kept warm for about three weeks before the chick hatches.
Who acts: chick · What happens: keep, hatch · To what, where: egg
This is a sentence of the lesson «Life cycles» of the world 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 hen | det |
| 2 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 egg | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 hen | case |
| 4 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 kept | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 kept | aux:pass |
| 7 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 kept | xcomp |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 weeks | case |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 three | advmod |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 weeks | nummod |
| 12 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 kept | obl |
| 13 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 16 hatches | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chick | det |
| 15 | chick | chick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hatches | nsubj |
| 16 | hatches | hatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 kept | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | must · passive | a hen's egg | week | warm property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | hatch | present | the chick | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
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:world:025-life-cycles.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 ×2. 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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