--- title: Chickens were tamed from a wild bird of Asian forests, the red jungl… — Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs · tree and pragmatics description: Chickens were tamed from a wild bird of Asian forests, the red junglefowl, which lays only a few dozen eggs a year, but today's farm hens lay almost one every day, with or without a rooster. Who acts: red junglefowl, farm hens. 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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 (red junglefowl, farm hens), 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:2 # text = Chickens were tamed from a wild bird of Asian forests, the red junglefowl, which lays only a few dozen eggs a year, but today's farm hens lay almost one every day, with or without a rooster. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Chickens chicken NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 tamed tame VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 Asian Asian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 forests forest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 junglefowl junglefowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 lays lay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 18 only only ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advmod 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 dozen dozen NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 27 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod:poss _ _ 28 's 's PART POS _ 27 case _ _ 29 farm farm NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 30 hens hen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 32 almost almost ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:nummod 34 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 35 det _ _ 35 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl:unmarked _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 38 or or CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 without without ADP IN _ 37 conj _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 rooster rooster NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tame** | past · passive | | Chickens | | | | from a wild bird of Asian forests; with a rooster | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with rooster=Instrument | | 2 | **lay** | present | the red junglefowl | a few dozen eggs | | | year | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | | 3 | **lay** | present | today's farm hens | one | | | day | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Result | 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:2`. **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 ×2, 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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