Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf owls and burrowing owls, sentence 4
At the other end of the scale the Eurasian eagle owl, with wings almost two metres across, can catch hares and even young foxes, while the elf owl of the desert weighs about as much as a sparrow and eats moths and scorpions.
Who acts: Eurasian eagle owl, elf owl · What happens: catch, weigh, eat · To what, where: hares, other end, much, moths
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 (Eurasian eagle owl, elf 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 end | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 end | amod |
| 4 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 catch | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 scale | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 scale | det |
| 7 | scale | scale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 end | nmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 owl | det |
| 9 | Eurasian | eurasian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 owl | amod |
| 10 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 owl | compound |
| 11 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 catch | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 metres | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 wings | case |
| 14 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 owl | nmod |
| 15 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 16 two | advmod |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 metres | nummod |
| 17 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 across | obl |
| 18 | across | across | ADV | _ | 14 wings | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 owl | punct |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 catch | aux |
| 21 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 22 | hares | hare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 catch | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 foxes | cc |
| 24 | even | even | ADV | _ | 26 foxes | advmod |
| 25 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 foxes | amod |
| 26 | foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 hares | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 owl | punct |
| 28 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 35 weighs | mark |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 owl | det |
| 30 | elf | elf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 owl | compound |
| 31 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 weighs | nsubj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 desert | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 desert | det |
| 34 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 owl | nmod |
| 35 | weighs | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 catch | advcl |
| 36 | about | about | ADV | _ | 38 much | advmod |
| 37 | as | as | ADV | _ | 38 much | advmod |
| 38 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 weighs | obj |
| 39 | as | as | ADP | _ | 41 sparrow | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 sparrow | det |
| 41 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 much | obl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 eats | cc |
| 43 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 weighs | conj |
| 44 | moths | moth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 eats | obj |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 scorpions | cc |
| 46 | scorpions | scorpion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 moths | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 catch | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | can | the Eurasian eagle owl with wings | hares and young foxes | at the other end of the scale | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent hare=Theme at end=Asset | |||
| 2 | weigh | present | the elf owl of the desert | much | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme much=Value | ||||
| 3 | eat | present | the elf owl of the desert not said here | moths and scorpions | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moth=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:4.
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 ×3, 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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