--- title: Look closely at a chicken's scaly feet, sharp claws and beady eye as… — Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: you, eye. A sentence of the lesson «Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependen --- [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/0/) [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…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs/) / 0 # Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs, sentence 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. **Who acts:** you, eye · **What happens:** look, stalk This is a sentence of the lesson «Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs» 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 (you, eye), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs.lesson:0 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs.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): no change 1 Look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 closely closely ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 chicken chicken NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 scaly scaly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 claws claw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 beady beady ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 15 as as SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 stalks stalk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 18 across across ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 yard yard NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 dinosaur dinosaur NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | at a chicken's scaly feet and sharp claws and beady eye; closely *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at foot=Theme | | 2 | **stalk** | present | eye | | | | | across the yard | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **look** | present · progressive | you | | | | | at a living dinosaur | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at dinosaur=Theme | 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:212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs.lesson:0`. **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): no change. **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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