Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf owls and burrowing owls, sentence 14

Snowy owls are wild birds of the Arctic tundra that hunt lemmings, often in daylight; after popular films some people bought pet owls and later abandoned them, bird charities reported.

Who acts: Snowy owls, wild birds, people, bird charities · What happens: be, hunt, buy, abandon, report · To what, where: wild birds, lemmings, daylight, pet owls, people

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 (Snowy owls, wild birds, people, bird charities), 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	Snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 owls	amod
2	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 birds	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 birds	cop
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 birds	amod
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 tundra	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tundra	det
8	Arctic	arctic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tundra	amod
9	tundra	tundra	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 birds	nmod
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 hunt	nsubj
11	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 birds	acl:relcl
12	lemmings	lemming	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hunt	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 daylight	punct
14	often	often	ADV	_	16 daylight	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 daylight	case
16	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hunt	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 films	punct
18	after	after	ADP	_	20 films	case
19	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 films	amod
20	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 bought	obl
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 people	det
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 bought	nsubj
23	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 birds	parataxis
24	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 owls	compound
25	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 bought	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 abandoned	cc
27	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 abandoned	advmod
28	abandoned	abandon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 bought	conj
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 abandoned	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 charities	punct
31	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 charities	compound
32	charities	charity	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 reported	nsubj
33	reported	report	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 birds	parataxis
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 reported	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Snowy owls	wild birds			of the Arctic tundra	tree rules
2	hunt	present	wild birds	lemmings	daylight			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lemming=Theme in daylight=Location
3	buy	past	some people	pet owls		after popular films		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent owl=Theme
4	abandon	past	some people not said here	people			late property	vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme they=Source
5	report	past	bird charities					vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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:14.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/301-owls-of-the-world-barn-owls-eagle-owls-elf-owls-and-burrowing-owls/14/