Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls, sentence 13
Owl eyes are fixed like tubes, so owls turn their heads instead, using 14 neck bones, twice as many as our 7.
Who acts: owls · What happens: fix, turn, use · To what, where: Owl eyes, heads, 14 neck bones
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 | Owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 eyes | compound |
| 2 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fixed | aux:pass |
| 4 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 tubes | case |
| 6 | tubes | tube | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fixed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 turn | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 turn | advmod |
| 9 | owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 turn | nsubj |
| 10 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fixed | conj |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 heads | nmod:poss |
| 12 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 turn | obj |
| 13 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 10 turn | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 using | punct |
| 15 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 turn | advcl |
| 16 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 bones | nummod |
| 17 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bones | compound |
| 18 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 using | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 many | punct |
| 20 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 22 many | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | _ | 22 many | advmod |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fixed | conj |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 7 | case |
| 24 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 7 | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 many | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fixed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | present · passive | Owl eyes | like tubes | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | turn | present | owls | eyes's heads | instead property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||
| 3 | use | gerund | owls not said here | 14 neck bones | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=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, 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:13.
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): no change. 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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