--- title: Chickens make more than twenty calls, with different alarms for dang… — Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: Chickens, 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, 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:14 # text = 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. # 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 1 Chickens chicken NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 5 advmod _ _ 4 than than ADP IN _ 3 fixed _ _ 5 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 calls call NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 alarms alarm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 hen hen NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 call call NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl _ _ 30 her she PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 chicks chick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 32 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 29 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:acl:relcl 35 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 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 | **make** | present | Chickens | twenty calls and different alarms for danger from the air and the ground | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Product | | 2 | **have** | present | a hen | a special call | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Patient | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | a hen *not said here* | a special call *not said here* | phrase's chicks | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent chick=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **find** | present · perfect | phrase | food | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic | 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:14`. **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. **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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