Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf owls and burrowing owls, sentence 10

Blakiston's fish owl of the Russian Far East and Japan is one of the heaviest owls; it grabs salmon with rough, spiky soles and needs old hollow trees by rivers to nest in, so it is rare.

Who acts: owl · What happens: be, grab, need, nest · To what, where: one, salmon, old hollow trees

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 (owl), 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	Blakiston	Blakiston	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 owl	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Blakiston	case
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 owl	compound
4	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 East	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 East	det
7	Russian	Russian	PROPN	_	8 Far	amod
8	Far	Far	PROPN	_	9 East	amod
9	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 owl	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 one	cc
11	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 East	conj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 one	cop
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 owl	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 owls	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 owls	det
16	heaviest	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 owls	amod
17	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 one	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 salmon	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 grabs	nsubj
20	grabs	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 owl	conj
21	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 grabs	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	26 soles	case
23	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 soles	amod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 rough	punct
25	spiky	spiky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 soles	amod
26	soles	sole	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 salmon	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 needs	cc
28	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 grabs	conj
29	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 trees	amod
30	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 trees	amod
31	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 needs	obj
32	by	by	ADP	_	33 rivers	case
33	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 needs	obl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 nest	mark
35	nest	nest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 rivers	acl
36	in	in	ADV	_	35 nest	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 rare	punct
38	so	so	ADV	_	41 rare	advmod
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 rare	nsubj
40	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 rare	cop
41	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 owl	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 owl	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		one	of the heaviest owls	tree rules
2	grab	present	owl	salmon	with rough spiky soles	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salmon=Theme
3	need	present	owl not said here	old hollow trees	by rivers	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot tree=Theme
4	nest	to-infinitive	owl not said here			vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	owl		rare 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:301-owls-of-the-world-barn-owls-eagle-owls-elf-owls-and-burrowing-owls.lesson:10.

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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