Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf owls and burrowing owls, sentence 0
There are about 250 kinds of owl, and they live on every continent except Antarctica.
Who acts: 250 kinds, kinds · What happens: be about, live · To what, where: continent
This is a sentence of the lesson «Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf owls and burrowing 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 (250 kinds, kinds), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 250 | advmod |
| 4 | 250 | 250 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 kinds | nummod |
| 5 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 owl | case |
| 7 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kinds | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 live | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 live | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 live | nsubj |
| 11 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 are | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 continent | case |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 continent | det |
| 14 | continent | continent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 live | obl |
| 15 | except | except | ADP | _ | 16 Antarctica | case |
| 16 | Antarctica | Antarctica | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 continent | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be about | present | 250 kinds of owl | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | present | kinds = kind | every continent except Antarctica | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on continent=Location |
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:301-owls-of-the-world-barn-owls-eagle-owls-elf-owls-and-burrowing-owls.lesson:0.
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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