How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pellets and owl myths, sentence 10

An owl can turn its head about 270 degrees, three quarters of a circle, but not all the way round; owls have 14 neck bones, twice as many as we have.

Who acts: owl, owls, we · What happens: turn, have · To what, where: head, 14 neck bones

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 (owl, owls, we), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 owl	det
2	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 head	nmod:poss
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obj
7	about	about	ADV	_	8 270	advmod
8	270	270	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 degrees	nummod
9	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turn	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 quarters	punct
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 quarters	nummod
12	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 degrees	appos
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 circle	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 circle	det
15	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 quarters	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 way	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 way	cc
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 all	advmod
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 way	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 way	det
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	parataxis
22	round	round	ADV	_	21 way	advmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 have	punct
24	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 have	nsubj
25	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	parataxis
26	14	14	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	28 bones	nummod
27	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bones	compound
28	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 have	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 twice	punct
30	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	32 many	advmod
31	as	as	ADV	_	32 many	advmod
32	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 bones	appos
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 have	mark
34	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 have	nsubj
35	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 many	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 turn	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	turn	can	a owl	sound's head	270 degrees obl	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme
2	have	present	owls	14 neck bones		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient
3	have	present	we			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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:10.

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 ×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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