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title: The code stamped on a British egg starts with how the hen lived: 0 o… — Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes… · tree and pragmatics
description: The code stamped on a British egg starts with how the hen lived: 0 organic, 1 free range, 2 barn, 3 cage; then letters for the country and a number for the farm, and a red lion stamp means the hens were vaccinated against Salmonella, a germ that gives people a bad tummy upset. Who acts: code, hen, r
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# Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes and what is inside, sentence 18

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The code stamped on a British egg starts with how the hen lived: 0 organic, 1 free range, 2 barn, 3 cage; then letters for the country and a number for the farm, and a red lion stamp means the hens were vaccinated against Salmonella, a germ that gives people a bad tummy upset.

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**Who acts:** code, hen, red lion stamp, germ · **What happens:** stamp, start, live, mean, vaccinate, give · **To what, where:** code, British egg, letters, 0, hens, bad tummy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (code, hen, red lion stamp, germ), 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:18
# text = The code stamped on a British egg starts with how the hen lived: 0 organic, 1 free range, 2 barn, 3 cage; then letters for the country and a number for the farm, and a red lion stamp means the hens were vaccinated against Salmonella, a germ that gives people a bad tummy upset.
# 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	code	code	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	stamped	stamp	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	0	0	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	_
16	organic	organic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:unmarked	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
19	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	range	range	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	barn	barn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
28	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
29	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
42	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
43	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	stamp	stamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
45	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:parataxis
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	hens	hen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nsubj:pass	_	_
48	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux:pass	_	_
49	vaccinated	vaccinate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	ccomp	_	_
50	against	against	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	Salmonella	Salmonella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	germ	germ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	appos	_	_
55	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	56	nsubj	_	_
56	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	54	acl:relcl	_	_
57	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=56:obj
58	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
59	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	tummy	tummy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obj	_	_
61	upset	upset	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stamp** | participle |  | the code *not said here* |  | a British egg |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on egg=Destination |
| 2 | **start** | present | the code | letters for the country and a number for the farm |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **live** | past | the hen | 0  organic and 1 free range and 2 barn and 3 cage |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **mean** | present | a red lion stamp |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **vaccinate** | past · passive |  | the hens |  |  |  | against Salmonella | tree rules |
| 6 | **give** | present | a germ | a bad tummy | people |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient tummy=Theme |

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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.

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**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 ×2, 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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