--- title: A shell has thousands of tiny pores; over weeks water escapes, the a… — Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes… · tree and pragmatics description: A shell has thousands of tiny pores; over weeks water escapes, the air pocket at the blunt end grows, and a very old egg floats in water while a fresh one lies flat on the bottom. Who acts: shell, water, air pocket, old egg. 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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 (shell, water, air pocket, old egg), 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:13 # text = A shell has thousands of tiny pores; over weeks water escapes, the air pocket at the blunt end grows, and a very old egg floats in water while a fresh one lies flat on the bottom. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 pores pore NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 over over ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 11 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 escapes escape VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 pocket pocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 blunt blunt ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 21 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:det 25 very very ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 floats float VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 31 while while SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=35:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:NN:Number=Sing 35 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 36 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 37 on on ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 40 . . 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 shell | thousands of tiny pores | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Patient | | 2 | **escape** | present | water | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **grow** | present | the air pocket at the blunt end | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **float** | present | a old egg | | | water | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Trajectory | | 5 | **lie** | present | a fresh one | | | the bottom | | flat *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bottom=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:13`. **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, R8-pos-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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