--- title: Think of a Scotch egg cut in half at a picnic: the breadcrumb crust… — Inside the Earth · tree and pragmatics description: Think of a Scotch egg cut in half at a picnic: the breadcrumb crust is thin, the sausage meat is thick, and the yolk sits in the centre; the real crust is far thinner than the breadcrumbs compared with the whole. Who acts: you, breadcrumb crust, sausage meat, yolk. A sentence of the lesson «Inside t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/41-inside-the-earth/2/) [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/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [Inside the Earth](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/41-inside-the-earth/) / 2 # Inside the Earth, sentence 2 Think of a Scotch egg cut in half at a picnic: the breadcrumb crust is thin, the sausage meat is thick, and the yolk sits in the centre; the real crust is far thinner than the breadcrumbs compared with the whole. **Who acts:** you, breadcrumb crust, sausage meat, yolk, real crust · **What happens:** think, cut, be, sit, compare · **To what, where:** Scotch egg, half, centre, breadcrumbs This is a sentence of the lesson «Inside the Earth» of the geography 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 (you, breadcrumb crust, sausage meat, yolk), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:041-inside-the-earth.lesson:2 # text = Think of a Scotch egg cut in half at a picnic: the breadcrumb crust is thin, the sausage meat is thick, and the yolk sits in the centre; the real crust is far thinner than the breadcrumbs compared with the whole. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 041-inside-the-earth.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Think think VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 Scotch Scotch NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 5 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 6 obl _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 picnic picnic NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 12 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 breadcrumb breadcrumb NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 crust crust NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 sausage sausage NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:parataxis 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 yolk yolk NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 centre centre NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 crust crust NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 37 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 38 advmod _ _ 38 thinner thin ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 1 parataxis _ _ 39 than than ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 breadcrumbs breadcrumb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ _ 42 compared compare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 41 acl _ _ 43 with with ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 whole whole NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | of a Scotch egg | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **cut** | participle | | a Scotch egg *not said here* | | half | | at a picnic | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at picnic=Patient | | 3 | **is** | present | the breadcrumb crust | | | | | thin *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | the sausage meat | | | | | thick *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **sit** | present | the yolk | | | the centre | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in centre=Location | | 6 | **is** | present | the real crust | | | | | than the breadcrumbs; far, thin *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **compare** | participle | | the breadcrumbs *not said here* | | | | with the whole | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with whole=Co-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:geography:041-inside-the-earth.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, R7-rel-agree ×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: [Inside the Earth, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/41-inside-the-earth/1/) - next →: [Inside the Earth, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/41-inside-the-earth/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/41-inside-the-earth/)