--- title: Crack an egg into a glass bowl and you can count its parts: the yell… — Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes… · tree and pragmatics description: Crack an egg into a glass bowl and you can count its parts: the yellow yolk, the clear white, and two twisty white cords that hold the yolk in the middle like the ropes of a hammock. Who acts: you, two twisty white cords. 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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 (you, two twisty white cords), 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:4 # text = Crack an egg into a glass bowl and you can count its parts: the yellow yolk, the clear white, and two twisty white cords that hold the yolk in the middle like the ropes of a hammock. # 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 Crack crack VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 into into ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 bowl bowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 count count VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 yolk yolk NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:appos 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 25 twisty twisty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 cords cord NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 28 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 29 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 yolk yolk NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 35 like like ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 ropes rope NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 hammock hammock NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **crack** | imperative | you *not said here* | a egg | | | | into a glass bowl *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent egg=Patient into bowl=Result | | 2 | **count** | can | you | bowl's parts | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | | 3 | **hold** | present | two twisty white cords | the yolk | | the middle | | like the ropes of a hammock | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent yolk=Theme in middle=Location | 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. 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