--- title: An egg has a yellow yolk, the food store for a chick, a clear white… — Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes… · tree and pragmatics description: An egg has a yellow yolk, the food store for a chick, a clear white that is mostly water and protein and cushions it, and two twisty cords called chalazae that hold the yolk in the middle. Who acts: egg, clear white, two twisty cords. 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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, clear white, two twisty cords), 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:12 # text = An egg has a yellow yolk, the food store for a chick, a clear white that is mostly water and protein and cushions it, and two twisty cords called chalazae that hold the yolk in the middle. # 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 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 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 yolk yolk NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 store store NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 chick chick NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 white white NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 18 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 acl:relcl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 protein protein NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 cushions cushion VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 30 twisty twisty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 cords cord NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 32 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl _ _ 33 chalazae chalazae NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 xcomp _ _ 34 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 35 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:acl:relcl 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 yolk yolk NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 41 . . 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 yellow yolk and a clear white | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | a clear white | water and protein | | | | mostly *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **cushion** | present | a clear white *not said here* | yolk | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **call** | participle | two twisty cords *not said here* | chalazae | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **hold** | present | two twisty cords | the yolk | | the middle | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent yolk=Theme in middle=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:342-where-eggs-come-from-hens-shell-colours-sizes-and-what-is-inside.lesson:12`. **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. 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