Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf owls and burrowing owls, sentence 11

The elf owl of the deserts of the USA and Mexico weighs about 40 grams, about as much as a sparrow, often nests in old woodpecker holes in saguaro cactuses and eats moths, crickets and even scorpions.

Who acts: elf owl · What happens: weigh, nest, eat · To what, where: 40 grams, old woodpecker holes, moths

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 (elf 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 owl	det
2	elf	elf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 owl	compound
3	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 weighs	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 deserts	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 deserts	det
6	deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 owl	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 USA	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 USA	det
9	USA	USA	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 deserts	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Mexico	cc
11	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 USA	conj
12	weighs	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	about	about	ADV	_	14 40	advmod
14	40	40	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 grams	nummod
15	grams	gram	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 weighs	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 much	punct
17	about	about	ADV	_	19 much	advmod
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 much	advmod
19	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 weighs	parataxis
20	as	as	ADP	_	22 sparrow	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 sparrow	det
22	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 much	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 nests	punct
24	often	often	ADV	_	25 nests	advmod
25	nests	nest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 weighs	conj
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 holes	case
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 holes	amod
28	woodpecker	woodpecker	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 holes	compound
29	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 nests	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 cactuses	case
31	saguaro	saguaro	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cactuses	compound
32	cactuses	cactus	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 holes	nmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 eats	cc
34	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 nests	conj
35	moths	moth	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 eats	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 crickets	punct
37	crickets	cricket	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 moths	conj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 scorpions	cc
39	even	even	ADV	_	40 scorpions	advmod
40	scorpions	scorpion	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 moths	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 weighs	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	weigh	present	the elf owl of the deserts of the USA and Mexico	40 grams			vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme gram=Value
2	nest	present	the elf owl of the deserts of the USA and Mexico not said here		old woodpecker holes in saguaro cactuses	often property	vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	eat	present	the elf owl of the deserts of the USA and Mexico not said here	moths and crickets and scorpions			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moth=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:301-owls-of-the-world-barn-owls-eagle-owls-elf-owls-and-burrowing-owls.lesson:11.

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): R7-rel-agree ×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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