--- title: Modern hens can lay around three hundred eggs a year, while wild jun… — Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs · tree and pragmatics description: Modern hens can lay around three hundred eggs a year, while wild junglefowl lay only a few dozen. Who acts: Modern hens, wild junglefowl. A sentence of the lesson «Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs, sentence 5 Modern hens can lay around three hundred eggs a year, while wild junglefowl lay only a few dozen. **Who acts:** Modern hens, wild junglefowl · **What happens:** lay around, lay · **To what, where:** hundred eggs, few dozen 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 (Modern hens, wild junglefowl), 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:5 # text = Modern hens can lay around three hundred eggs a year, while wild junglefowl lay only a few dozen. # 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 ×4 1 Modern modern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 hens hen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 around around ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 6 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nummod 7 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:unmarked _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 while while SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 junglefowl junglefowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 16 only only ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 dozen dozen NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obl 20 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 around** | can | Modern hens | hundred eggs a year | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | | 2 | **lay** | present | wild junglefowl | a few dozen | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dozen=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:5`. **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 ×4. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Chickens: eggs, pecking order and livi…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs/4/) - next →: [Chickens: eggs, pecking order and livi…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs/)