--- title: An egg has an air pocket at the wide end, white for water and cushio… — Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight · tree and pragmatics description: An egg has an air pocket at the wide end, white for water and cushioning, a yolk for food, and thousands of tiny holes in the shell that let air in; before it breaks the shell the chick takes its first breaths from the air pocket. Who acts: egg, tiny holes, chick. 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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 (egg, tiny holes, chick), 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:8 # text = An egg has an air pocket at the wide end, white for water and cushioning, a yolk for food, and thousands of tiny holes in the shell that let air in; before it breaks the shell the chick takes its first breaths from the air pocket. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 pocket pocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advcl 13 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 cushioning cushion NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 yolk yolk NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 holes hole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 32 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 33 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 35 ; ; PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 36 before before SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 breaks break VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 advcl _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 chick chick NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 43 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 44 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 45 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 46 amod _ _ 46 breaths breath NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obj _ _ 47 from from ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 compound _ _ 50 pocket pocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=46:nmod 51 . . 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 | **have** | present | a egg | a air pocket and thousands of tiny holes in the shell | | | at the wide end | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pocket=Patient | | 2 | **let** | infinitive | tiny holes in the shell | air | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme | | 3 | **break** | present | egg | the shell | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shell=Patient | | 4 | **take** | present | the chick | chick's first breaths | | the air pocket | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent breath=Theme from pocket=Initial\_Location | 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:8`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight/7/) - next →: [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/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight/)