The polar zone: arctic foxes, snowy owls, lemmings and reindeer, sentence 6

Snowy owls hunt in daylight in the Arctic summer, when the sun never sets, and eat mostly lemmings, raising many more chicks in good lemming years; Hedwig in Harry Potter was a snowy owl, played by whiter male owls.

Who acts: Snowy owls, sun, Hedwig · What happens: hunt, not set, eat, raise, be, play · To what, where: daylight, lemmings, more chicks, snowy owl

This is a sentence of the lesson «The polar zone: arctic foxes, snowy owls, lemmings and reindeer» of the biology 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 (Snowy owls, sun, Hedwig), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 owls	amod
2	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hunt	nsubj
3	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 daylight	case
5	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hunt	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 summer	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 summer	det
8	Arctic	arctic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 summer	amod
9	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hunt	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sets	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 sets	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sun	det
13	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sets	nsubj
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 sets	advmod
15	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hunt	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 eat	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 eat	cc
18	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hunt	parataxis
19	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	20 lemmings	advmod
20	lemmings	lemming	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 eat	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 raising	punct
22	raising	raise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 eat	advcl
23	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 more	amod
24	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 chicks	amod
25	chicks	chick	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 raising	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 years	case
27	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 years	amod
28	lemming	lemming	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 years	compound
29	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 raising	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 Hedwig	punct
31	Hedwig	Hedwig	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 owl	nsubj
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 Harry	case
33	Harry	Harry	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Hedwig	nmod
34	Potter	Potter	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Harry	flat
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 owl	cop
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 owl	det
37	snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 owl	amod
38	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 eat	parataxis
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 played	punct
40	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 owl	acl
41	by	by	ADP	_	44 owls	case
42	whiter	white	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	44 owls	amod
43	male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 owls	amod
44	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 played	obl:agent
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hunt	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	hunt	present	Snowy owls		daylight	summer	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in daylight=Location
2	not set	present	the sun				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	eat	present		lemmings			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lemming=Patient
4	raise	gerund		more chicks		year	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chick=Theme
5	is a	past	Hedwig in Harry	a snowy owl			tree rules
6	play	participle		a snowy owl not said here			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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, 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:106-the-polar-zone-arctic-foxes-snowy-owls-lemmings-reindeer.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 ×2. 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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