Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls, sentence 12

Owls are mostly active at night and can turn their heads about 270 degrees, three-quarters of the way round, not a full circle.

Who acts: Owls · What happens: be, turn · To what, where: heads

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls» 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 (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	Owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 active	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 active	cop
3	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	4 active	advmod
4	active	active	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 active	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 turn	cc
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 turn	aux
9	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 active	conj
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 heads	nmod:poss
11	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 turn	obj
12	about	about	ADV	_	13 270	advmod
13	270	270	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 degrees	nummod
14	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 turn	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 quarters	punct
16	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 quarters	nummod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 three	punct
18	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 degrees	appos
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 way	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 way	det
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 quarters	nmod
22	round	round	ADV	_	4 active	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 circle	punct
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 circle	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 circle	det
26	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 circle	amod
27	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 quarters	appos
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 active	punct

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	is	present	Owls				night	active, mostly, round property	tree rules
2	turn	can	Owls not said here	predators's heads				270 degrees obl	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme

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:143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls.lesson:12.

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. 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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