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# Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kakapos, giants and dwarfs, sentence 15

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A kiwi lays an egg about one fifth of the mother's own weight, so the chick hatches strong and can look after itself early, and the kiwi is the only bird with nostrils at the tip of its beak, used to smell worms.

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**Who acts:** kiwi, chick · **What happens:** lay, hatch, look, be, use, smell · **To what, where:** egg, only bird, worms

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kakapos, giants and dwarfs» 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 (kiwi, chick), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:181-strange-islands-komodo-dragons-the-dodo-red-crabs-kakapos-giants-and-dwarfs.lesson:15
# text = A kiwi lays an egg about one fifth of the mother's own weight, so the chick hatches strong and can look after itself early, and the kiwi is the only bird with nostrils at the tip of its beak, used to smell worms.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 181-strange-islands-komodo-dragons-the-dodo-red-crabs-kakapos-giants-and-dwarfs.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kiwi	kiwi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lays	lay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	fifth	fifth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	_
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	chick	chick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	hatches	hatch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
24	after	after	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obl	_	_
26	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	kiwi	kiwi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	tip	tip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	beak	beak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
44	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	smell	smell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	xcomp	_	_
47	worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obj	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | present | a kiwi | a egg |  |  |  | about one fifth of the mother's own weight | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme about fifth=Destination |
| 2 | **hatch** | present | the chick |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **look** | can | the chick *not said here* |  |  |  | after chick | early *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the kiwi | the only bird |  |  |  | with nostrils at the tip of chick's beak | tree rules |
| 5 | **use** | participle |  | the only bird *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **smell** | to-infinitive |  | worms |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer worm=Stimulus |

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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.

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**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

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