--- title: The ostrich is the biggest living bird and lays the biggest egg, as… — The African savanna area: hippos, meerkats, ostr… · tree and pragmatics description: The ostrich is the biggest living bird and lays the biggest egg, as heavy as about 20 to 24 hen's eggs, with a shell strong enough for a person to stand on. Who acts: ostrich, person. A sentence of the lesson «The African savanna area: hippos, meerkats, ostriches, wild dogs and hyenas» of the biolog --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The African savanna area: hippos, meer…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches/) / 11 # The African savanna area: hippos, meerkats, ostriches, wild dogs and hyenas, sentence 11 The ostrich is the biggest living bird and lays the biggest egg, as heavy as about 20 to 24 hen's eggs, with a shell strong enough for a person to stand on. **Who acts:** ostrich, person · **What happens:** be, lay, stand on · **To what, where:** biggest living bird, biggest egg This is a sentence of the lesson «The African savanna area: hippos, meerkats, ostriches, wild dogs and hyenas» 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 (ostrich, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches.lesson:11 # text = The ostrich is the biggest living bird and lays the biggest egg, as heavy as about 20 to 24 hen's eggs, with a shell strong enough for a person to stand on. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches.lesson # annotation = 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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 ostrich ostrich NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ _ 6 living living ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 lays lay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 12 amod _ _ 12 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 as as ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 15 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 16 as as ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 17 about about ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:conj 21 hen hen NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:compound 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 28 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 29 enough enough ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 for for SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:obl 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:acl 35 on on ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the ostrich | the biggest living bird | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **lay** | present | the ostrich *not said here* | the biggest egg | | | | with a shell | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | | 3 | **stand on** | to-infinitive | a person | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches.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): R5-strong ×5, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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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