--- title: Breeds such as the Araucana and the Cream Legbar lay blue or greenis… — Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes… · tree and pragmatics description: Breeds such as the Araucana and the Cream Legbar lay blue or greenish eggs, and in a blue egg the colour goes right through the shell, while brown is mostly on the outside layers. Who acts: Breeds, colour, brown. 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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 (Breeds, colour, brown), 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:9 # text = Breeds such as the Araucana and the Cream Legbar lay blue or greenish eggs, and in a blue egg the colour goes right through the shell, while brown is mostly on the outside layers. # 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 ×1 1 Breeds breed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 2 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 5 case _ _ 3 as as ADP IN _ 2 fixed _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Araucana Araucana PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det 8 Cream cream NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 9 Legbar Legbar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 flat _ _ 10 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 greenish greenish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 14 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 24 right right ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 25 through through ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 29 while while SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 30 brown brown NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 32 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 outside outside ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 layers layer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 advcl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 10 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** | present | Breeds such the Araucana and Cream | blue eggs | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | | 2 | **go** | present | the colour | | | a blue egg | | through the shell | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through shell=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **is** | present | brown | | | the outside layers | | mostly *property* | tree rules | 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:9`. **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 ×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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