Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf owls and burrowing owls, sentence 8

Barn owls do not hoot; they give a long hissing shriek, and white owls shrieking from church towers at night gave rise to many ghost stories.

Who acts: Barn owls, kinds, white owls · What happens: not hoot, give, shriek · To what, where: long hissing shriek, church towers, rise, many ghost stories

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 (Barn owls, kinds, white 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	Barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 owls	compound
2	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hoot	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hoot	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 hoot	advmod
5	hoot	hoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 give	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 give	nsubj
8	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hoot	parataxis
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 shriek	det
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 shriek	amod
11	hissing	hissing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shriek	compound
12	shriek	shriek	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 give	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 gave	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 owls	cc
15	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 owls	amod
16	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 gave	nsubj
17	shrieking	shriek	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 owls	acl
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 towers	case
19	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 towers	compound
20	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 shrieking	obl
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 night	case
22	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shrieking	obl
23	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hoot	conj
24	rise	rise	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gave	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	28 stories	case
26	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 stories	amod
27	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stories	compound
28	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 gave	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hoot	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	not hoot	present · do-support	Barn owls					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	give	present	kinds = kind	a long hissing shriek				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shriek=Theme
3	shriek	gerund	white owls not said here			church towers	night	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	give	past	white owls	rise	many ghost stories			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent rise=Theme to story=Recipient

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:8.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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.

See the release 0.4.

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