--- title: An egg takes about a day to make, with about 20 hours spent getting… — Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes… · tree and pragmatics description: An egg takes about a day to make, with about 20 hours spent getting its shell, which is mostly calcium, so hens need lots of calcium and backyard hens are given crushed oyster shell. Who acts: egg, 20 hours, shell, 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 (egg, 20 hours, shell, 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:19 # text = An egg takes about a day to make, with about 20 hours spent getting its shell, which is mostly calcium, so hens need lots of calcium and backyard hens are given crushed oyster shell. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 about about ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obl:unmarked 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 with with SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 11 about about ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 spent spend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 15 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 calcium calcium NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 acl:relcl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 25 hens hen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 27 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 calcium calcium NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 backyard backyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 hens hen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 conj _ _ 35 crushed crush VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 amod _ _ 36 oyster oyster NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 38 . . 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 | **take** | present | a egg | | | | day | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | a egg *not said here* | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **spend** | past | 20 hours | | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **get** | gerund | 20 hours *not said here* | germ's shell | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shell=Stimulus | | 5 | **is a** | present | germ's shell | calcium | | | | mostly *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **need** | present | hens | lots of calcium | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lot=Theme | | 7 | **give** | present · passive | | backyard hens | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient shell=Theme | | 8 | **crush** | participle | | | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | 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:19`. **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): R7-rel-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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