--- title: A chicken egg takes about 21 days to hatch if kept warm; the chick c… — Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents · tree and pragmatics description: A chicken egg takes about 21 days to hatch if kept warm; the chick cracks the shell with a hard tip on its beak called the egg tooth, and supermarket eggs never hatch because no rooster was there. Who acts: chicken egg, chick, beak, supermarket eggs. 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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 (chicken egg, chick, beak, supermarket eggs), 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:7 # text = A chicken egg takes about 21 days to hatch if kept warm; the chick cracks the shell with a hard tip on its beak called the egg tooth, and supermarket eggs never hatch because no rooster was there. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 chicken chicken NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 about about ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 21 21 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 hatch hatch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:acl 10 if if SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 advcl _ _ 12 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 chick chick NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 cracks crack VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 tip tip NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod 23 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 supermarket supermarket NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 34 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 hatch hatch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 36 because because SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 37 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 38 det _ _ 38 rooster rooster NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 40 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advcl _ _ 41 . . 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 | **take** | present | a chicken egg | | | | day | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **hatch** | to-infinitive | a chicken egg *not said here* | | | | | | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | a chicken egg *not said here* | | | | | warm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **crack** | present | the chick | the shell | | | | with a hard tip on chick's beak | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent shell=Patient with tip=Instrument | | 5 | **call** | participle | chick's beak *not said here* | the egg tooth | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tooth=Recipient | | 6 | **not** **hatch** | present | supermarket eggs | | | | | | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **is** | past | no rooster | | | | | there *property* | tree rules | 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:7`. **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 ×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…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/49-babies/6/) - next →: [Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/49-babies/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/49-babies/)