--- title: Shell colour depends on the breed of hen; inside, a brown egg and a… — Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes… · tree and pragmatics description: Shell colour depends on the breed of hen; inside, a brown egg and a white egg are the same food, and as a rough rule hens with white earlobes lay white eggs and hens with red earlobes lay brown ones. Who acts: Shell colour, brown egg, rule 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 (Shell colour, brown egg, rule 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:8 # text = Shell colour depends on the breed of hen; inside, a brown egg and a white egg are the same food, and as a rough rule hens with white earlobes lay white eggs and hens with red earlobes lay brown ones. # 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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 depends depend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 breed breed NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 hen hen NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 10 inside inside ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 19 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 25 as as ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:det 27 rough rough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:amod 28 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 hens hen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 appos _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 earlobes earlobe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:obl 33 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl _ _ 34 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 hens hen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ _ 38 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 earlobes earlobe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=41:obl 41 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:acl 42 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obj _ _ 44 . . 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 | **depend** | present | Shell colour | | | | | on the breed of hen | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on breed=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | a brown egg and a white egg | the same food | | | | inside *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **lay** | present | rule hens with white earlobes and hens with red earlobes *not said here* | white eggs | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | | 4 | **lay** | present | rule hens with white earlobes and hens with red earlobes *not said here* | brown ones | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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:8`. **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 ×5, 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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