--- title: Foxes hunt chickens, which cannot fly well and sleep deeply at night… — Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs · tree and pragmatics description: Foxes hunt chickens, which cannot fly well and sleep deeply at night, so a hen house must be shut every evening. Who acts: Foxes, chickens. A sentence of the lesson «Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pr --- [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/12/) [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/) / 12 # Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs, sentence 12 Foxes hunt chickens, which cannot fly well and sleep deeply at night, so a hen house must be shut every evening. **Who acts:** Foxes, chickens · **What happens:** hunt, not fly, sleep, shut · **To what, where:** chickens, hen house 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 (Foxes, chickens), 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:12 # text = Foxes hunt chickens, which cannot fly well and sleep deeply at night, so a hen house must be shut every evening. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Foxes fox NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 hunt hunt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 chickens chicken NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 6 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 acl:relcl _ _ 9 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 deeply deeply ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl 15 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 hen hen NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 shut shut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 23 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 24 det _ _ 24 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 . . 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 | **hunt** | present | Foxes | chickens | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chicken=Theme | | 2 | **not** **fly** | can | chickens | | | | | well *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **sleep** | infinitive | chickens *not said here* | | | | night | deeply *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **shut** | must · passive | | a hen house | | | evening | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | 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:12`. **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, 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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