--- title: Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Look closely at a chicken's scaly feet, sharp claws and beady eye as it stalks across the yard, and you are looking at --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs/) [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/) / Chickens: eggs, pecking order and livi… # Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs Lesson 212 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 15 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs/0/) — Look closely at a chicken's scaly feet, sharp claws and beady eye as it stalks across the yard, and you are looking at a living dinosaur. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs/1/) — Birds are the one group of dinosaurs that survived, and the chicken shares many bones and features with its huge extinct relatives such as T. rex. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs/2/) — Chickens were tamed from a wild bird of Asian forests, the red junglefowl, which lays only a few dozen eggs a year, but today's farm hens lay almost one every day, with or without a rooster. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs/3/) — A flock is a little society with a pecking order, more than twenty different calls and mothers that talk to their chicks before they even hatch. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs/4/) — A hen lays eggs with or without a rooster; shop eggs are not fertilised, because no rooster mated with the hen, so they could never hatch. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs/5/) — Modern hens can lay around three hundred eggs a year, while wild junglefowl lay only a few dozen. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs/6/) — Roosters crow at many times of day, not only at dawn, to claim their territory, and a study reported that a rooster partly closes its ear canals when crowing so it does not deafen itself. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs/7/) — Chickens scratch and peck for seeds, worms and insects; they are omnivores and will even eat mice and small frogs. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs/8/) — A flock has a pecking order: the top hen eats first and pecks lower hens, and the phrase «pecking order» for people comes from chickens. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs/9/) — A broody hen, one that wants to sit on eggs, keeps her eggs warm for about three weeks, and before hatching the chicks peep inside the shell and the hen clucks back. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs/10/) — Chickens bathe in dry dust, which cleans their feathers and gets rid of mites, tiny biting bugs, and a dust-bathing hen can look half dead though she is perfectly happy. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs/12/) — Foxes hunt chickens, which cannot fly well and sleep deeply at night, so a hen house must be shut every evening. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs/13/) — A chicken's eyes are on the sides of its head; it turns its head to look with one eye and then the other, and it sees more colours than we do, including ultraviolet. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs/14/) — Chickens make more than twenty calls, with different alarms for danger from the air and from the ground, and a hen has a special call to tell her chicks she has found food. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs/15/) — Shell colour, white, brown or even blue, depends on the breed and often matches the hen's earlobes, but the egg inside is the same. - ← previous: [Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can myth](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/211-sheep-and-goats-wool-flocks-climbers-and-the-tin-can-myth/) - next →: [Ducks, geese and farm myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/213-ducks-geese-and-farm-myths/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)