--- title: A hen lays eggs with or without a rooster; shop eggs are not fertili… — Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs · tree and pragmatics description: A hen lays eggs with or without a rooster; shop eggs are not fertilised, because no rooster mated with the hen, so they could never hatch. Who acts: hen, eggs, rooster, hens. A sentence of the lesson «Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs, sentence 4 A hen lays eggs with or without a rooster; shop eggs are not fertilised, because no rooster mated with the hen, so they could never hatch. **Who acts:** hen, eggs, rooster, hens · **What happens:** lay, not fertilise, mate, not hatch · **To what, where:** eggs, shop eggs 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 (hen, eggs, rooster, 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:4 # text = A hen lays eggs with or without a rooster; shop eggs are not fertilised, because no rooster mated with the hen, so they could never 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): R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 hen hen NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 lays lay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 7 without without ADP IN _ 5 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:case 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 rooster rooster NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 11 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 fertilised fertilise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 because because SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 19 det _ _ 19 rooster rooster NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 mated mate VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 hen hen NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 hatch hatch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **lay** | present | a hen | eggs | | | | with a rooster | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | | 2 | **not** **fertilise** | present · passive | eggs *not said here* | shop eggs | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **mate** | past | no rooster | | | | | with the hen | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with hen=Co-Patient | | 4 | **not** **hatch** | could | 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:4`. **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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