--- title: A broody hen, one that wants to sit on eggs, keeps her eggs warm for… — Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs · tree and pragmatics description: A broody hen, one that wants to sit on eggs, keeps her eggs warm for about three weeks, and before hatching the chicks peep inside the shell and the hen clucks back. Who acts: broody hen, hen. 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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 (broody hen, hen), 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:9 # text = A broody hen, one that wants to sit on eggs, keeps her eggs warm for about three weeks, and before hatching the chicks peep inside the shell and the hen clucks back. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 broody broody ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 hen hen NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 appos _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 13 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 about about ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc 23 before before SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 24 hatching hatch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Ger 27 advcl _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 chicks chick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 peep peep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 28 inside inside ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=27:cc 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 hen hen NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 clucks cluck VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 35 back back ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 13 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 | **want** | present | | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **sit** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | eggs | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on egg=Location | | 3 | **keep** | present | a broody hen | phrase's eggs | | | week | warm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme | | 4 | **hatch** | gerund | | the chicks | | | | | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent chick=Product | | 5 | **peep** | present | a broody hen *not said here* | | | | | inside the shell | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent inside shell=Theme | | 6 | **cluck back** | present | the hen | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:9`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, 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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