Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf owls and burrowing owls, sentence 13

Burrowing owls spread animal dung around their burrows; the dung attracts dung beetles, which the owls eat, a kind of bait and tool use.

Who acts: Burrowing owls, dung, owls · What happens: spread, attract, eat · To what, where: animal dung, burrows, dung beetles

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 (Burrowing owls, dung, 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	Burrowing	burrow	ADJ	_	2 owls	amod
2	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spread	nsubj
3	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dung	compound
5	dung	dung	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spread	obj
6	around	around	ADP	_	8 burrows	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 burrows	nmod:poss
8	burrows	burrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spread	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 attracts	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dung	det
11	dung	dung	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 attracts	nsubj
12	attracts	attract	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 spread	parataxis
13	dung	dung	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 beetles	compound
14	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 attracts	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 eat	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 eat	obj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 owls	det
18	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 eat	nsubj
19	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 beetles	acl:relcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 kind	punct
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 kind	det
22	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 beetles	appos
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 bait	case
24	bait	bait	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 kind	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 use	cc
26	tool	tool	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 use	compound
27	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bait	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spread	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	spread	present	Burrowing owls	animal dung	scorpions's burrows	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dung=Theme around burrow=Destination
2	attract	present	the dung	dung beetles		vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beetle=Patient
3	eat	present	the owls	dung beetles		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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: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, R5-strong ×2, 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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