Forests: woodland through the year and the great northern forest, sentence 14

The twit-twoo call is usually two tawny owls: one calls kee-wick and another answers hoo-hooo; owls cannot move their eyes, so they turn their heads, up to about 270 degrees.

Who acts: twit twoo call, one, another, owls, beats · What happens: be, call, answers, not move, turn · To what, where: two tawny owls, hoo, eyes, heads, 270 degrees · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Forests: woodland through the year and the great northern forest» 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 (twit twoo call, one, another, owls), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 call	det
2	twit	twit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 call	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 twit	punct
4	twoo	twoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 call	compound
5	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 owls	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 owls	cop
7	usually	usually	ADV	_	10 owls	advmod
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 owls	nummod
9	tawny	tawny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 owls	amod
10	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 wick	punct
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 calls	nsubj
13	calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 wick	nmod:unmarked
14	kee	kee	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wick	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 kee	punct
16	wick	wick	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 owls	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 answers	cc
18	another	another	PRON	PronType=Ind	19 answers	nsubj
19	answers	answers	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 owls	conj
20	hoo	hoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 answers	obj
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 hooo	punct
22	hooo	hooo	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hoo	compound
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 move	punct
24	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 move	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 move	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 move	advmod
27	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 answers	parataxis
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 eyes	nmod:poss
29	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 move	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 turn	punct
31	so	so	ADV	_	33 turn	advmod
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 turn	nsubj
33	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 move	advcl
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 heads	nmod:poss
35	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 turn	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 up	punct
37	up	up	ADV	_	33 turn	advmod
38	to	to	ADP	_	41 degrees	case
39	about	about	ADV	_	40 270	advmod
40	270	270	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	41 degrees	nummod
41	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 turn	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 owls	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the twit twoo call	two tawny owls and kee wick		usually property	tree rules
2	call		one				tree rules
3	answers	present	another	hoo			tree rules
4	not move	can	owls	beats's eyes			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
5	turn	present	beats = beat	beats's heads	270 degrees		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme to degree=Trajectory

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:012-forests-woodland-through-the-year.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): 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.

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