Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf owls and burrowing owls, sentence 7
A barn owl's heart-shaped face works like a satellite dish, gathering sound towards its ears; barn owls hunt mostly by ear, and in experiments they caught mice in total darkness.
Who acts: heart shaped face, barn owls, kinds · What happens: shape, work, gather, hunt, catch · To what, where: mice, experiments
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 (heart shaped face, barn owls, kinds), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 owl | det |
| 2 | barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 owl | compound |
| 3 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 face | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 owl | case |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 face | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 heart | punct |
| 7 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 face | amod |
| 8 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 works | nsubj |
| 9 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 dish | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 dish | det |
| 12 | satellite | satellite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dish | compound |
| 13 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 works | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sound | punct |
| 15 | gathering | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 sound | amod |
| 16 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dish | appos |
| 17 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 19 ears | case |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 ears | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sound | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 hunt | punct |
| 21 | barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 owls | compound |
| 22 | owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 hunt | nsubj |
| 23 | hunt | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 works | parataxis |
| 24 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 23 hunt | advmod |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 ear | case |
| 26 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hunt | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 caught | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 caught | cc |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 experiments | case |
| 30 | experiments | experiment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 caught | obl |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 caught | nsubj |
| 32 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 hunt | conj |
| 33 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 caught | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 darkness | case |
| 35 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 darkness | amod |
| 36 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 caught | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 works | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shape | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 2 | work | present | a barn owl's heart shaped face | like a satellite dish | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | gather | gerund | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | hunt | present | barn owls | by ear; mostly property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent by ear=Location | ||||
| 5 | catch | past | kinds = kind | mice | experiments | in total darkness | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme |
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:7.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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