--- title: A chicken hatches from an egg as a fluffy chick that already looks l… — Life cycles · tree and pragmatics description: A chicken hatches from an egg as a fluffy chick that already looks like a small hen, and simply grows; a bean plant grows from a seed into a plant that flowers and makes new beans. Who acts: chicken, fluffy chick, bean plant, plant. A sentence of the lesson «Life cycles» of the world course of Mova' --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/3/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Life cycles](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/) / 3 # Life cycles, sentence 3 A chicken hatches from an egg as a fluffy chick that already looks like a small hen, and simply grows; a bean plant grows from a seed into a plant that flowers and makes new beans. **Who acts:** chicken, fluffy chick, bean plant, plant · **What happens:** hatch, look, grow, flower, make · **To what, where:** seed, new beans This is a sentence of the lesson «Life cycles» of the world 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 (chicken, fluffy chick, bean plant, plant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:025-life-cycles.lesson:3 # text = A chicken hatches from an egg as a fluffy chick that already looks like a small hen, and simply grows; a bean plant grows from a seed into a plant that flowers and makes new beans. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 025-life-cycles.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 chicken chicken NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hatches hatch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 fluffy fluffy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 chick chick NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 12 already already ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 14 like like ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 hen hen NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 simply simply ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 bean bean NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 27 from from ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 into into ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 33 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 34 flowers flower VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 37 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 beans bean NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **hatch** | present | a chicken | | | | | as a fluffy chick; from a egg | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent from egg=Patient | | 2 | **look** | present | a fluffy chick | | | | | like a small hen | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **grow** | present | a fluffy chick *not said here* | | | | | simply *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **grow** | present | a bean plant | | | a seed | | into a plant *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into plant=Result | | 5 | **flower** | present | a plant | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **make** | present | a plant *not said here* | new beans | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bean=Product | 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:world:025-life-cycles.lesson:3`. **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): 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: [Life cycles, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/2/) - next →: [Life cycles, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/)