--- title: A flock is a little society with a pecking order, more than twenty d… — Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs · tree and pragmatics description: A flock is a little society with a pecking order, more than twenty different calls and mothers that talk to their chicks before they even hatch. Who acts: flock, twenty different calls, hens. A sentence of the lesson «Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs» of the biology course of Mova' --- [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/3/) [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/) / 3 # Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs, sentence 3 A flock is a little society with a pecking order, more than twenty different calls and mothers that talk to their chicks before they even hatch. **Who acts:** flock, twenty different calls, hens · **What happens:** be, talk, hatch · **To what, where:** little society 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 (flock, twenty different calls, 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:3 # text = A flock is a little society with a pecking order, more than twenty different calls and mothers that talk to their chicks before they even hatch. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 flock flock NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 society society NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 pecking pecking NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 conj _ _ 13 than than ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 15 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 calls call NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 mothers mother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 19 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 talk talk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 chicks chick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 24 before before SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 even even ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 hatch hatch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a flock | a little society | | | | with a pecking order | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | a flock *not said here* | | | | | than twenty different calls and mothers | tree rules | | 3 | **talk** | present | twenty different calls and mothers | | | | | to mothers's chicks | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to chick=Co-Agent | | 4 | **hatch** | present | hens *= hen* | | | | | | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=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:3`. **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): 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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