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title: A chicken has two legs, two wings and two breasts; the wishbone is i… — Where meat and fish come from, told honestly · tree and pragmatics
description: A chicken has two legs, two wings and two breasts; the wishbone is its two collarbones joined together. Who acts: chicken, wishbone. A sentence of the lesson «Where meat and fish come from, told honestly» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Where meat and fish come from, told honestly, sentence 12

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A chicken has two legs, two wings and two breasts; the wishbone is its two collarbones joined together.

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**Who acts:** chicken, wishbone · **What happens:** have, be, join · **To what, where:** two legs, two collarbones

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Where meat and fish come from, told honestly» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chicken, wishbone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly.lesson:12
# text = A chicken has two legs, two wings and two breasts; the wishbone is its two collarbones joined together.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly.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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	breasts	breast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	wishbone	wishbone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	collarbones	collarbone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
19	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	together	together	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a chicken | two legs and two wings and two breasts |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the wishbone | chicken's two collarbones |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **join** | participle |  | chicken's two collarbones *not said here* |  |  |  | together *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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.

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**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:343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly.lesson:12`.

**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): no change. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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