Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf owls and burrowing owls, sentence 5
Owls are real wild hunters, not the wise teachers or post carriers of stories and films, and each kind fits its own home: the snowy owl the Arctic tundra, the burrowing owl the open grassland, the fish owl the old forests along rivers.
Who acts: Owls, kind, snowy owl · What happens: be, fit, tundra, burrow · To what, where: real wild hunters, own home
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 (Owls, kind, snowy 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 | Owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hunters | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hunters | cop |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hunters | amod |
| 4 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hunters | amod |
| 5 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 teachers | punct |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 teachers | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 teachers | det |
| 9 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 teachers | amod |
| 10 | teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hunters | conj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 carriers | cc |
| 12 | post | post | X | _ | 13 carriers | compound |
| 13 | carriers | carrier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 teachers | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 stories | case |
| 15 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 carriers | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 films | cc |
| 17 | films | film | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 stories | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fits | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fits | cc |
| 20 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 kind | det |
| 21 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fits | nsubj |
| 22 | fits | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hunters | conj |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 home | nmod:poss |
| 24 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 home | amod |
| 25 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fits | obj |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 32 tundra | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 owl | det |
| 28 | snowy | snowy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 owl | amod |
| 29 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 tundra | nsubj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 tundra | det |
| 31 | Arctic | arctic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 tundra | amod |
| 32 | tundra | tundra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fits | acl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 owl | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 owl | det |
| 35 | burrowing | burrow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 owl | amod |
| 36 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 tundra | conj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 grassland | det |
| 38 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 grassland | amod |
| 39 | grassland | grassland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 owl | appos |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 owl | punct |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 owl | det |
| 42 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 owl | compound |
| 43 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 tundra | conj |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 forests | det |
| 45 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 forests | amod |
| 46 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 owl | appos |
| 47 | along | along | ADP | _ | 48 rivers | case |
| 48 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 forests | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hunters | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Owls | real wild hunters and the wise teachers or post carriers of stories and films | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fit | present | each kind | owl's own home | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Patient | ||||
| 3 | tundra | the snowy owl | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | burrow | gerund | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location»: 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:5.
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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