--- title: A modern laying hen can lay about 300 eggs a year, nearly one a day,… — Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes… · tree and pragmatics description: A modern laying hen can lay about 300 eggs a year, nearly one a day, while her wild ancestor, the red junglefowl of Asia, lays only a few clutches of five or six. Who acts: modern laying hen, wild ancestor. 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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 (modern laying hen, wild ancestor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:342-where-eggs-come-from-hens-shell-colours-sizes-and-what-is-inside.lesson:1 # text = A modern laying hen can lay about 300 eggs a year, nearly one a day, while her wild ancestor, the red junglefowl of Asia, lays only a few clutches of five or six. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 342-where-eggs-come-from-hens-shell-colours-sizes-and-what-is-inside.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 modern modern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 laying laying NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 hen hen NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 about about ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 8 300 300 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obl 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 obl _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod:unmarked _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 while while SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 19 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 ancestor ancestor NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 junglefowl junglefowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 Asia Asia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 lays lay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 30 only only ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 clutches clutch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nmod _ _ 36 or or CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lay about** | can | a modern laying hen | 300 eggs | | | year | one a day *obl* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | | 2 | **lay** | present | hen's wild ancestor | a few clutches of five | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clutch=Result | 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:342-where-eggs-come-from-hens-shell-colours-sizes-and-what-is-inside.lesson:1`. **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, 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. 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