--- title: The ostrich lays the biggest egg of any living bird, weighing about… — Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest · tree and pragmatics description: The ostrich lays the biggest egg of any living bird, weighing about as much as two dozen chicken eggs, with a shell strong enough for a person to stand on. Who acts: ostrich, person. 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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, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest.lesson:10 # text = The ostrich lays the biggest egg of any living bird, weighing about as much as two dozen chicken eggs, with a shell strong enough for a person to stand on. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest.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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 ostrich ostrich NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 lays lay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 6 amod _ _ 6 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 10 det _ _ 9 living living ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 weighing weigh VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 13 about about ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 as as ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 obj _ _ 16 as as ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 compound _ _ 18 dozen dozen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 19 chicken chicken NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 25 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 26 enough enough ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 for for SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 32 on on ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lay** | present | the ostrich | the biggest egg of any living bird | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | | 2 | **weigh** | gerund | the ostrich *not said here* | much | | | | with a shell | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme much=Value | | 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:186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest.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): 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. 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