--- title: Storks usually lay about 3 to 5 eggs, both parents take turns sittin… — White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and thei… · tree and pragmatics description: Storks usually lay about 3 to 5 eggs, both parents take turns sitting on them, the chicks hatch after about a month and fly at about 2 months old. Who acts: Storks, parents, turns, chicks. A sentence of the lesson «White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey to Africa» of the biology c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [White storks: Ukraine's favourite bird…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa/) / 11 # White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey to Africa, sentence 11 Storks usually lay about 3 to 5 eggs, both parents take turns sitting on them, the chicks hatch after about a month and fly at about 2 months old. **Who acts:** Storks, parents, turns, chicks · **What happens:** lay about, take, sit, hatch, fly · **To what, where:** 3 eggs, turns This is a sentence of the lesson «White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey to Africa» 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 (Storks, parents, turns, chicks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa.lesson:11 # text = Storks usually lay about 3 to 5 eggs, both parents take turns sitting on them, the chicks hatch after about a month and fly at about 2 months old. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Storks stork NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 usually usually ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 about about ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nmod _ _ 8 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 11 det _ _ 11 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 13 turns turn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 sitting sit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 acl _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 chicks chick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 hatch hatch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj 21 after after ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 about about ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 fly fly VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 27 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 about about ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 31 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ _ 32 . . 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 | **lay about** | present | Storks | 3 eggs | | | | usually *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | | 2 | **take** | present | both parents | turns | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme | | 3 | **sit** | gerund | turns *not said here* | | | | | on parents *= parent* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on they=Location | | 4 | **hatch** | present | the chicks | | | | month | | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **fly** | present | the chicks *not said here* | | | | month | old *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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:375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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