Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf owls and burrowing owls, sentence 15
The «twit-twoo» of a British wood is usually two tawny owls, one calling «ke-wick» and another answering «hoo-hoo-oo»; a tawny owl pair may stay in the same wood for life.
Who acts: twit twoo, one, tawny owl pair · What happens: be, call, answer, stay · To what, where: two tawny owls, hoo hoo oo, same wood · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (twit twoo, one, tawny owl pair), 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 | 5 twoo | det |
| 2 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 twoo | punct |
| 3 | twit | twit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 twoo | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 twit | punct |
| 5 | twoo | twoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 owls | nsubj |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 twoo | punct |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 wood | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 wood | det |
| 9 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wood | amod |
| 10 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 twoo | nmod |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 owls | cop |
| 12 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 15 owls | advmod |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 owls | nummod |
| 14 | tawny | tawny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 owls | amod |
| 15 | owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 calling | punct |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 calling | nsubj |
| 18 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 owls | acl |
| 19 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 22 wick | punct |
| 20 | ke | ke | X | Foreign=Yes | 22 wick | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 ke | punct |
| 22 | wick | wick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 calling | parataxis |
| 23 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 22 wick | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 another | cc |
| 25 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 one | conj |
| 26 | answering | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 another | acl |
| 27 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 32 oo | punct |
| 28 | hoo | hoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 oo | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 hoo | punct |
| 30 | hoo | hoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 oo | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 oo | punct |
| 32 | oo | oo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 answering | obj |
| 33 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 32 oo | punct |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 stay | punct |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 pair | det |
| 36 | tawny | tawny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 pair | amod |
| 37 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 pair | compound |
| 38 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 stay | nsubj |
| 39 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 stay | aux |
| 40 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 owls | parataxis |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 wood | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 wood | det |
| 43 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 wood | amod |
| 44 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 stay | obl |
| 45 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 life | case |
| 46 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 stay | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 owls | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the twit twoo of a British wood | two tawny owls | usually property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | call speech: assert | gerund | one | two tawny owls not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | gerund | hoo hoo oo | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent oo=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | stay | may | a tawny owl pair | the same wood | for life | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=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.
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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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