Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf owls and burrowing owls, sentence 9

The Eurasian eagle owl is one of the biggest owls, with wings about 1.6 to 1.9 metres across, and it can catch hares, ducks and even young foxes; its tall ear tufts are only feathers, not ears.

Who acts: Eurasian eagle owl, owl, tall ear tufts · What happens: be, catch · To what, where: one, hares, feathers

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, owl, tall ear tufts), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 owl	det
2	Eurasian	eurasian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 owl	amod
3	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 owl	compound
4	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 one	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 one	cop
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 owls	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 owls	det
9	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 owls	amod
10	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 one	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wings	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 wings	case
13	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 owls	nmod
14	about	about	ADV	_	15 1.6	advmod
15	1.6	1.6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Frac	18 metres	nummod
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 1.9	case
17	1.9	1.9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Frac	15 1.6	nmod
18	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 wings	nmod:unmarked
19	across	across	ADV	_	18 metres	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 catch	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 catch	cc
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 catch	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 catch	aux
24	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 one	conj
25	hares	hare	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 catch	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ducks	punct
27	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 hares	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 foxes	cc
29	even	even	ADV	_	31 foxes	advmod
30	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 foxes	amod
31	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 hares	conj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 feathers	punct
33	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 tufts	nmod:poss
34	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 tufts	amod
35	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 tufts	compound
36	tufts	tuft	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 feathers	nsubj
37	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 feathers	cop
38	only	only	ADV	_	39 feathers	advmod
39	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 one	parataxis
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 ears	punct
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 ears	advmod
42	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 feathers	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Eurasian eagle owl	one	of the biggest owls with wings 1.6 metres	tree rules
2	catch	can	owl	hares and ducks and young foxes		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Theme
3	is a	present	owl's tall ear tufts	feathers and ears		tree rules

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:9.

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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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