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title: Shell colour, white, brown or even blue, depends on the breed and of… — Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs · tree and pragmatics
description: Shell colour, white, brown or even blue, depends on the breed and often matches the hen's earlobes, but the egg inside is the same. Who acts: Shell colour, egg. A sentence of the lesson «Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs, sentence 15

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Shell colour, white, brown or even blue, depends on the breed and often matches the hen's earlobes, but the egg inside is the same.

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**Who acts:** Shell colour, egg · **What happens:** depend, match, be · **To what, where:** earlobes

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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 (Shell colour, egg), 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:15
# text = Shell colour, white, brown or even blue, depends on the breed and often matches the hen's earlobes, but the egg inside is the same.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	even	even	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	depends	depend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	breed	breed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	often	often	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	matches	match	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	earlobes	earlobe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
26	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:parataxis
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **depend** | present | Shell colour |  |  |  |  | on the breed | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on breed=Theme |
| 2 | **match** | present | Shell colour *not said here* | the hen's earlobes |  |  |  | often *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earlobe=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | the egg |  |  |  |  | same *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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): R7-rel-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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