--- title: In Britain eggs are sorted by weight into small, medium, large and v… — Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes… · tree and pragmatics description: In Britain eggs are sorted by weight into small, medium, large and very large, a large egg weighing roughly 63 to 73 grams, and older hens tend to lay bigger eggs. Who acts: weight, large egg, older hens. 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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 (weight, large egg, older hens), 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:16 # text = In Britain eggs are sorted by weight into small, medium, large and very large, a large egg weighing roughly 63 to 73 grams, and older hens tend to lay bigger eggs. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 3 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 sorted sort VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 into into ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 medium medium ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 very very ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 weighing weigh VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 22 roughly roughly ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 63 63 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 73 73 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nmod _ _ 26 grams gram NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 30 amod _ _ 30 hens hen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 tend tend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 35 amod _ _ 35 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sort** | present · passive | weight | eggs | | | | in Britain *goal*; into small | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in britain=Goal | | 2 | **weigh** | gerund | a large egg | 63 grams | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme gram=Value | | 3 | **tend** | present | older hens | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **lay** | to-infinitive | older hens *not said here* | bigger eggs | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=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:16`. **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): R6-punct-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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