--- title: Duck eggs are larger with thicker shells and bigger yolks, some bree… — Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes,… · tree and pragmatics description: Duck eggs are larger with thicker shells and bigger yolks, some breeds like the Khaki Campbell lay nearly 300 a year, and ducks lay early in the morning, so they are kept in until then. Who acts: Duck eggs, breeds, ducks. 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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 (Duck eggs, breeds, ducks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:350-farm-animals-by-numbers-stomachs-hooves-toes-eggs-and-litres.lesson:11 # text = Duck eggs are larger with thicker shells and bigger yolks, some breeds like the Khaki Campbell lay nearly 300 a year, and ducks lay early in the morning, so they are kept in until then. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 350-farm-animals-by-numbers-stomachs-hooves-toes-eggs-and-litres.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 Duck duck NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 larger large ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 thicker thick ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 amod _ _ 7 shells shell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 amod _ _ 10 yolks yolk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 13 det _ _ 13 breeds breed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nsubj 14 like like ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 Khaki khaki PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 17 Campbell Campbell PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 18 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 19 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 300 300 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obl 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 ducks duck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 27 early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 26 advmod _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 so so ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 33 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 36 in in ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 38 case _ _ 37 until until SCONJ IN _ 36 fixed _ _ 38 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 35 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Duck eggs | | | | | with thicker shells and bigger yolks; large *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **lay** | present | some breeds like the Khaki Campbell | 300 | | | year | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 300=Result | | 3 | **lay** | present | ducks | | | | morning | early *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **keep** | present · passive | | ducks *= duck* | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in then=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:350-farm-animals-by-numbers-stomachs-hooves-toes-eggs-and-litres.lesson:11`. **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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