--- title: A chick breaks out using an egg tooth, a hard point on its beak that… — Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight · tree and pragmatics description: A chick breaks out using an egg tooth, a hard point on its beak that falls off a few days after hatching; people should not help it out, because it is still taking in the last of its yolk and will finish by itself. Who acts: chick, beak, people, it. 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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 (chick, beak, people, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:033-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight.lesson:10 # text = A chick breaks out using an egg tooth, a hard point on its beak that falls off a few days after hatching; people should not help it out, because it is still taking in the last of its yolk and will finish by itself. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 033-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 chick chick NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 breaks break VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 out out ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 5 using use VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 6 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 point point NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 off off ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 after after SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 23 hatching hatch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 25 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 26 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 out out ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 because because SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 still still ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 37 in in ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=36:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 obj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 yolk yolk NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 45 finish finish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 conj _ _ 46 by by ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 45 obl _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break out** | present | a chick | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **use** | gerund | a chick *not said here* | a egg tooth | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | | 3 | **fall off** | present | chick's beak | | | | day | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **hatch** | gerund | chick's beak *not said here* | | | | | | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **not** **help out** | should | people | chick | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary | | 6 | **take in** | present · progressive | it | the last of chick's yolk | | | still | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent last=Theme | | 7 | **finish** | future | | | | | | by chick | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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:033-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight.lesson:10`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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: [Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight/9/) - next →: [Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight/)