--- title: A chick grows in its egg for about three weeks and cracks the shell… — Life is precious: wonder and gratitude · tree and pragmatics description: A chick grows in its egg for about three weeks and cracks the shell using a small «egg tooth» on its beak. Who acts: chick. A sentence of the lesson «Life is precious: wonder and gratitude» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/54-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude/6/) [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/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Life is precious: wonder and gratitude](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/54-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude/) / 6 # Life is precious: wonder and gratitude, sentence 6 A chick grows in its egg for about three weeks and cracks the shell using a small «egg tooth» on its beak. **Who acts:** chick · **What happens:** grow, crack, use · **To what, where:** egg, shell, small egg tooth This is a sentence of the lesson «Life is precious: wonder and gratitude» of the religion ethics 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 (chick), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:054-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude.lesson:6 # text = A chick grows in its egg for about three weeks and cracks the shell using a small «egg tooth» on its beak. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 054-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude.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 ×7 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 chick chick NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 about about ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 cracks crack VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obj 15 using use VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:acl 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:det 17 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:amod 18 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 19 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:compound 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | present | a chick | | | chick's egg | week | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in egg=Location | | 2 | **crack** | present | a chick *not said here* | the shell | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shell=Theme | | 3 | **use** | gerund | a chick *not said here* | a small egg tooth | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=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:religion-ethics:054-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude.lesson:6`. **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 ×7. **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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