Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf owls and burrowing owls, sentence 3

Its pale heart-shaped face works like a satellite dish, gathering the tiny rustle of a vole in the long grass towards its ears.

Who acts: pale heart shaped face, vole · What happens: shape, work, gather, rustle · To what, where: tiny rustle

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 (pale heart shaped face, vole), 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	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 face	nmod:poss
2	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 face	amod
3	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 face	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 heart	punct
5	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 face	amod
6	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 works	nsubj
7	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 dish	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 dish	det
10	satellite	satellite	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dish	compound
11	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 works	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gathering	punct
13	gathering	gather	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 works	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rustle	det
15	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 rustle	amod
16	rustle	rustle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gathering	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 vole	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 vole	det
19	vole	vole	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rustle	nmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 grass	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 grass	det
22	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 grass	amod
23	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 vole	nmod
24	towards	towards	ADP	_	26 ears	case
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 ears	nmod:poss
26	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 gathering	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 works	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shape	participle				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	work	present	field's pale heart shaped face		like a satellite dish	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	gather	gerund	field's pale heart shaped face not said here	the tiny rustle of a vole in the long grass	towards field's ears	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rustle=Theme
4	rustle		a vole in the long grass			nom rustle «event intransitive»: of=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:3.

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): 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.

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