How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pellets and owl myths, sentence 16

The wise-owl idea comes partly from ancient Athens, where the little owl was the bird of Athena, goddess of wisdom, and appeared on silver coins.

Who acts: owl idea, little owl · What happens: come, be, appear · To what, where: ancient Athens, bird, silver coins

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 idea, little owl), 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	5 idea	det
2	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 owl	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 wise	punct
4	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 idea	compound
5	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 comes	nsubj
6	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	partly	partly	ADV	_	6 comes	advmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 Athens	case
9	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Athens	amod
10	Athens	Athens	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 comes	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bird	punct
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 bird	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 owl	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 owl	amod
15	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bird	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 bird	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bird	det
18	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Athens	acl:relcl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Athena	case
20	Athena	Athena	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 bird	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 goddess	punct
22	goddess	goddess	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Athena	appos
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 wisdom	case
24	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 goddess	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 appeared	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 appeared	cc
27	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 comes	conj
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 coins	case
29	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 coins	compound
30	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 appeared	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 comes	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	come	present	the owl idea		ancient Athens	partly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from athens=Initial_Location
2	is a	past	the little owl	the bird		of Athena	tree rules
3	appear	past	the owl idea not said here		silver coins		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on coin=Location

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:16.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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