--- title: The yolk travels down a long tube inside the hen, gets wrapped in th… — Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes… · tree and pragmatics description: The yolk travels down a long tube inside the hen, gets wrapped in the white and thin skins, and spends about 20 hours in the last part getting its hard shell of calcium, the same mineral as in chalk and in your bones. Who acts: yolk. 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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 (yolk), 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:3 # text = The yolk travels down a long tube inside the hen, gets wrapped in the white and thin skins, and spends about 20 hours in the last part getting its hard shell of calcium, the same mineral as in chalk and in your bones. # 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): R1-cc-next ×3, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 yolk yolk NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 travels travel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 4 down down ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 tube tube NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 inside inside ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 hen hen NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 12 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 wrapped wrap VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 xcomp _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 16 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=16:cc 18 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 19 skins skin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=12:cc 22 spends spend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 23 about about ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 30 getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:acl 31 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 32 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 calcium calcium NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 mineral mineral NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 appos _ _ 40 as as ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 chalk chalk NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=42:cc 44 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 conj _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **travel** | present | the yolk | | | a long tube inside the hen | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down tube=Trajectory | | 2 | **get** | present | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **wrap** | participle | | | | the white skins | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in skin=Destination | | 4 | **spend** | present | | | | the last part | hour | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **get** | gerund | | yolk's hard shell of calcium | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shell=Stimulus | 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:3`. **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): R1-cc-next ×3, R5-strong ×1, 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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