--- title: A chicken's eyes are on the sides of its head; it turns its head to… — Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: eyes, it, chicken. 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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 (eyes, it, chicken), 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:13 # text = 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. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 chicken chicken NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:conj 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 sees see VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 30 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 31 amod _ _ 31 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 32 than than SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 including including ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 ultraviolet ultraviolet NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a chicken's eyes | | | the sides | | of chicken's head | tree rules | | 2 | **turn** | present | it | chicken's head | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme head=Result | | 3 | **look** | to-infinitive | | | | | | with one eye | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **see** | present | chicken | more colours | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer colour=Stimulus | 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:13`. **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, R6-punct-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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