--- title: Chickens come from the red junglefowl, a wild bird of Asian jungles;… — Horses, cattle, camels and chickens: how people… · tree and pragmatics description: Chickens come from the red junglefowl, a wild bird of Asian jungles; they may first have been kept for show and fighting, later for eggs and meat, and there are now more chickens than any other bird on Earth. Who acts: Chickens, more chickens. 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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 (Chickens, more chickens), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals.lesson:15 # text = Chickens come from the red junglefowl, a wild bird of Asian jungles; they may first have been kept for show and fighting, later for eggs and meat, and there are now more chickens than any other bird on Earth. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals.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 ×2 1 Chickens chicken NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 junglefowl junglefowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 Asian Asian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 jungles jungle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 17 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 20 advmod _ _ 18 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 aux _ _ 19 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:advcl 21 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 show show NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 fighting fighting NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 20 advmod _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 34 expl _ _ 34 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 35 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 34 advmod _ _ 36 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 37 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 37 chickens chicken NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 38 than than ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 41 det _ _ 40 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 42 on on ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nmod _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | Chickens | | | the red junglefowl | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from junglefowl=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **keep** | may · perfect · passive | | chickens *= chicken* | | | | for show and fighting; first, late *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **does** | present | more chickens than any other bird on Earth | | | there | now | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals.lesson:15`. **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 ×2. **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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