--- title: Most hens have four toes, three forward and one back to grip a perch… — Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes,… · tree and pragmatics description: Most hens have four toes, three forward and one back to grip a perch, Silkies have five, and cockerels grow a sharp spur on the back of each leg. Who acts: Most hens, Silkies, cockerels. 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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 (Most hens, Silkies, cockerels), 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:15 # text = Most hens have four toes, three forward and one back to grip a perch, Silkies have five, and cockerels grow a sharp spur on the back of each leg. # 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 ×1 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 hens hen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 toes toe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nmod _ _ 8 forward forward ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 conj _ _ 11 back back ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 grip grip VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 perch perch NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 Silkies silky NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 19 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 cockerels cockerel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 spur spur NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nmod 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 32 det _ _ 32 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Most hens | four toes three | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Patient | | 2 | **grip** | to-infinitive | Most hens *not said here* | a perch | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perch=Experiencer | | 3 | **have** | present | Silkies | five | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent five=Patient | | 4 | **grow** | present | cockerels | a sharp spur | | the back of each leg | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location spur=Theme | 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:15`. **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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