--- title: A modern laying hen can lay about 300 eggs a year, nearly one a day,… — Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes… · tree and pragmatics description: A modern laying hen can lay about 300 eggs a year, nearly one a day, because farmers kept the best layers for hundreds of years; her wild ancestor, the red junglefowl, lays only a few clutches of about five or six. Who acts: modern laying hen, farmers, wild ancestor. 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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 (modern laying hen, farmers, wild ancestor), 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:7 # text = A modern laying hen can lay about 300 eggs a year, nearly one a day, because farmers kept the best layers for hundreds of years; her wild ancestor, the red junglefowl, lays only a few clutches of about five or six. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 modern modern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 laying laying NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 hen hen NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 about about ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 8 300 300 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obl 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 because because SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 23 amod _ _ 23 layers layer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nmod 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 29 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 ancestor ancestor NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 junglefowl junglefowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:conj 36 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 37 lays lay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 38 only only ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 clutches clutch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 about about ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 41 nmod _ _ 45 or or CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 44 conj _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lay about** | can | a modern laying hen | 300 eggs | | | day; year | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | | 2 | **keep** | past | farmers | the best layers | | | | for hundreds of years | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent layer=Theme | | 3 | **lay** | present | hen's wild ancestor | a few clutches of five | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clutch=Result | 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:7`. **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 ×2, 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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