--- title: An ostrich egg is the largest egg of any living bird, about 15 centi… — Myth check: do ostriches bury their heads in the… · tree and pragmatics description: An ostrich egg is the largest egg of any living bird, about 15 centimetres long and as heavy as about 20 to 24 hen's eggs; its shell is so strong that a grown-up can stand on it. Who acts: ostrich egg, shell. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ostrich egg, shell), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:151-ostriches-and-heads-in-the-sand.lesson:10 # text = An ostrich egg is the largest egg of any living bird, about 15 centimetres long and as heavy as about 20 to 24 hen's eggs; its shell is so strong that a grown-up can stand on it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 151-ostriches-and-heads-in-the-sand.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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 ostrich ostrich NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ _ 7 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 11 det _ _ 10 living living ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 about about ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 centimetres centimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 parataxis _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 as as ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 19 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 20 as as ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 21 about about ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 nmod _ _ 25 hen hen NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 's 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 29 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ _ 34 that that SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:det 36 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 nsubj _ _ 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ _ 38 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound:prt _ Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=36:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 39 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ _ 41 on on ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obl _ _ 43 . . 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 | a ostrich egg | the largest egg | | | | of any living bird | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | bird's shell | | | | | strong *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **grow up** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **stand** | can | | | | | | on bird | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on it=Location | 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:151-ostriches-and-heads-in-the-sand.lesson:10`. **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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Myth check: do ostriches bury their he…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/151-ostriches-and-heads-in-the-sand/9/) - next →: [Myth check: do ostriches bury their he…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/151-ostriches-and-heads-in-the-sand/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/151-ostriches-and-heads-in-the-sand/)