--- title: Chickens bathe in dry dust, which cleans their feathers and gets rid… — Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: Chickens, dry dust, bathing hen, phrase. 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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 (Chickens, dry dust, bathing hen, phrase), 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:10 # text = 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. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Chickens chicken NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 bathe bathe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 cleans clean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 13 rid rid NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 mites mite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:nmod 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 biting biting ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 bugs bug NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj 20 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 23 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 25 bathing bathing NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 hen hen NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 parataxis _ _ 29 half half ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 30 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:det:predet|HaikuPos=DET:PDT:NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 30 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ _ 31 though though SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 32 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 perfectly perfectly ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 advcl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bathe** | present | Chickens | | | | | in dry dust | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in dust=Theme | | 2 | **clean** | present | dry dust | hens's feathers | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent feather=Patient | | 3 | **get** | present | dry dust *not said here* | rid | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rid=Stimulus | | 4 | **look** | can | a bathing hen | | | | | dead *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **is** | present | phrase | | | | | happy, perfectly *property* | tree rules | 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: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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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