Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf owls and burrowing owls, sentence 6

There are about 250 kinds of owl, split into two families: the barn owls and the typical owls; owls live on every continent except Antarctica.

Who acts: 250 kinds, owls · What happens: be about, split, live · To what, where: 250 kinds, two families, continent

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 (250 kinds, owls), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 250	advmod
4	250	250	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 kinds	nummod
5	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 owl	case
7	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kinds	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 split	punct
9	split	split	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 kinds	acl
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 families	case
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 families	nummod
12	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 split	obl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 owls	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 owls	det
15	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 owls	compound
16	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 families	appos
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 owls	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 owls	det
19	typical	typical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 owls	amod
20	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 owls	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 live	punct
22	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 live	nsubj
23	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 are	parataxis
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 continent	case
25	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	26 continent	det
26	continent	continent	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 live	obl
27	except	except	ADP	_	28 Antarctica	case
28	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 continent	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be about	present	250 kinds of owl		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	split	participle		250 kinds of owl not said here		into two families result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into family=Result
3	live	present	owls		every continent except Antarctica		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on continent=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.

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:6.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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