How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pellets and owl myths, sentence 1

Its wing feathers have comb-like front edges and soft fringes, so it glides past you in a barn without a whisper, and the mouse below hears nothing either.

Who acts: wing feathers, machine, mouse · What happens: have, glide, hear · To what, where: comb like front edges, barn, nothing

This is a sentence of the lesson «How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pellets and owl myths» 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 (wing feathers, machine, mouse), 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	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 feathers	nmod:poss
2	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feathers	compound
3	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 edges	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 comb	punct
7	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 edges	amod
8	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 edges	amod
9	edges	edge	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fringes	cc
11	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fringes	amod
12	fringes	fringe	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 edges	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 glides	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 glides	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 glides	nsubj
16	glides	glide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	parataxis
17	past	past	ADP	_	18 you	case
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 glides	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 barn	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 barn	det
21	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 glides	obl
22	without	without	ADP	_	24 whisper	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 whisper	det
24	whisper	whisper	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 glides	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 hears	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 hears	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 mouse	det
28	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hears	nsubj
29	below	below	ADV	_	28 mouse	advmod
30	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	conj
31	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	30 hears	obj
32	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	30 hears	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	machine's wing feathers	comb like front edges and soft fringes			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent edge=Patient
2	glide	present	machine		a barn	past you; without a whisper	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme past you=Source in barn=Trajectory
3	hear	present	the mouse	nothing		either property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus

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:302-how-owls-work-silent-wings-turning-heads-pellets-and-owl-myths.lesson:1.

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 ×2, 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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