Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf owls and burrowing owls, sentence 2
Picture a barn owl at dusk, floating low over a field.
Who acts: you, barn owl · What happens: picture, float · To what, where: barn owl, field
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 (you, barn 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 owl | det |
| 3 | barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 owl | compound |
| 4 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 dusk | case |
| 6 | dusk | dusk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 floating | punct |
| 8 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 owl | acl |
| 9 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 floating | advmod |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 field | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 field | det |
| 12 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 floating | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | a barn owl | dusk | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent owl=Theme | |||
| 2 | float | gerund | a barn owl not said here | a field | low property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over field=Trajectory |
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:2.
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): no change. 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.
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