--- title: If your school has an incubator, watch a chick peck its way out with… — Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents · tree and pragmatics description: If your school has an incubator, watch a chick peck its way out with the tiny hard tip on its beak after about 21 days: it is the same egg you could have had for breakfast, but with a rooster in the farmyard. Who acts: school, chick, you. 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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 (school, chick, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:049-babies.lesson:2 # text = If your school has an incubator, watch a chick peck its way out with the tiny hard tip on its beak after about 21 days: it is the same egg you could have had for breakfast, but with a rooster in the farmyard. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 049-babies.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 incubator incubator NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 watch watch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 chick chick NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 peck peck VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:NN:VerbForm=Inf 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 out out ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 17 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 tip tip NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 after after ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 about about ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 21 21 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl 27 : : PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 aux _ _ 36 had have VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 32 acl:relcl _ _ 37 for for ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 breakfast breakfast NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 40 but but CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 41 with with ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 rooster rooster NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 farmyard farmyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp, act=request | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | your school | a incubator | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent incubator=Patient | | 2 | **watch** | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **peck out** | infinitive | a chick | chick's way | | | day | with the tiny hard tip on chick's beak; out *property* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent way=Patient with tip=Instrument | | 4 | **is a** | present | school | the same egg | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **have** | could · perfect | you | the same egg *not said here* | | | | for breakfast | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient | 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:049-babies.lesson:2`. **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, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/49-babies/0/) - next →: [Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/49-babies/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/49-babies/)