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title: Snap a chicken bone from Sunday dinner and it is hollow, with thin s… — Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight · tree and pragmatics
description: Snap a chicken bone from Sunday dinner and it is hollow, with thin struts inside like a bridge, light but strong. Who acts: you, bone. A sentence of the lesson «Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight, sentence 2

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Snap a chicken bone from Sunday dinner and it is hollow, with thin struts inside like a bridge, light but strong.

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**Who acts:** you, bone · **What happens:** snap, be · **To what, where:** chicken bone

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight» 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 (you, bone), 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:2
# text = Snap a chicken bone from Sunday dinner and it is hollow, with thin struts inside like a bridge, light but strong.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Snap	snap	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	struts	strut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snap** | imperative | you *not said here* | a chicken bone |  |  |  | from Sunday dinner | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent bone=Patient from dinner=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | bone |  |  |  |  | with thin struts like a bridge; hollow *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:2`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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