--- title: Chickens scratch the ground for seeds, worms and insects like their… — The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits an… · tree and pragmatics description: Chickens scratch the ground for seeds, worms and insects like their wild ancestor, the red junglefowl of Asian forests, and there are more chickens than any other bird. Who acts: Chickens, more chickens. 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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 (Chickens, more chickens), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:096-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands.lesson:14 # text = Chickens scratch the ground for seeds, worms and insects like their wild ancestor, the red junglefowl of Asian forests, and there are more chickens than any other bird. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 096-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands.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 Chickens chicken NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 scratch scratch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 worms worm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 11 like like ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 ancestor ancestor NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 junglefowl junglefowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 Asian Asian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 forests forest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 25 expl _ _ 25 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 26 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 amod _ _ 27 chickens chicken NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 28 than than ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 31 det _ _ 30 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **scratch** | present | Chickens | the ground | | | | for seeds like Chickens's wild ancestor and worms and insects | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Theme | | 2 | **does** | present | more chickens than any other bird | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «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:096-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands.lesson:14`. **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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