More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows, toads and falling cats, sentence 13
Owls are good hunters but not cleverer than other birds; an owl's big face is mostly eyes and ears for hunting, and crows, ravens and parrots do much better in puzzle tests.
Who acts: Owls, big face · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: good hunters, eyes
This is a sentence of the lesson «More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows, toads and falling cats» 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, big face), 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 hunters | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hunters | cop |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hunters | amod |
| 4 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 cleverer | cc |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 cleverer | advmod |
| 7 | cleverer | clever | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 hunters | conj |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 birds | case |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 birds | amod |
| 10 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cleverer | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 eyes | punct |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 owl | det |
| 13 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 face | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 owl | case |
| 15 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 face | amod |
| 16 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 eyes | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 eyes | cop |
| 18 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 19 eyes | advmod |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hunters | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 ears | cc |
| 21 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 eyes | conj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 hunting | case |
| 23 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 eyes | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 crows | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 crows | cc |
| 26 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 do | nsubj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 ravens | punct |
| 28 | ravens | raven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 crows | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 parrots | cc |
| 30 | parrots | parrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 crows | conj |
| 31 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 better | aux |
| 32 | much | much | ADV | _ | 33 better | advmod |
| 33 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 cleverer | conj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 tests | case |
| 35 | puzzle | puzzle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 tests | compound |
| 36 | tests | test | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 do | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hunters | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Owls | good hunters and eyes and ears | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not be | Owls not said here | than other birds | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | a owl's big face | eyes and ears | for hunting; mostly property | tree rules |
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:154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, 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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