--- title: An ostrich egg holds as much as about two dozen hen's eggs, and a hu… — Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes… · tree and pragmatics description: An ostrich egg holds as much as about two dozen hen's eggs, and a hummingbird egg is about the size of a jellybean. Who acts: ostrich egg, hummingbird egg. A sentence of the lesson «Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes and what is inside» of the biology course of Mova's primary school wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/342-where-eggs-come-from-hens-shell-colours-sizes-and-what-is-inside/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Where eggs come from: hens, shell colo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/342-where-eggs-come-from-hens-shell-colours-sizes-and-what-is-inside/) / 17 # Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes and what is inside, sentence 17 An ostrich egg holds as much as about two dozen hen's eggs, and a hummingbird egg is about the size of a jellybean. **Who acts:** ostrich egg, hummingbird egg · **What happens:** hold, be · **To what, where:** much, size This is a sentence of the lesson «Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes and what is inside» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ostrich egg, hummingbird 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:17 # text = An ostrich egg holds as much as about two dozen hen's eggs, and a hummingbird egg is about the size of a jellybean. # 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 ×3 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 ostrich ostrich NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 as as ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 obj _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 8 about about ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod 9 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:nummod 10 dozen dozen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 hen hen NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:compound 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 hummingbird hummingbird NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 20 about about ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 jellybean jellybean NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | present | a ostrich egg | much | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | a hummingbird egg | the size | | | | of a jellybean; about *property* | tree rules | 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:17`. **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 ×3. **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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