How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pellets and owl myths, sentence 17
In many places owls were feared as signs of death, and in others they were lucky; really they call to keep their patch and find partners, and farmers put up owl boxes because owls eat lots of rats and mice.
Who acts: others, farmers, owls · What happens: fear, be, call, keep, find, put up · To what, where: owls, many places, others, patch, partners, owl boxes · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (others, farmers, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 places | case |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 places | amod |
| 3 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 feared | obl |
| 4 | owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 feared | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 feared | aux:pass |
| 6 | feared | fear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 signs | case |
| 8 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 feared | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 death | case |
| 10 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 signs | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lucky | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lucky | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 others | case |
| 14 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lucky | obl |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lucky | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 lucky | cop |
| 17 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 feared | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 call | punct |
| 19 | really | really | ADV | _ | 21 call | advmod |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 call | nsubj |
| 21 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 lucky | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 keep | mark |
| 23 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 call | xcomp |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 patch | nmod:poss |
| 25 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 keep | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 find | cc |
| 27 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 keep | conj |
| 28 | partners | partner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 find | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 put | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 put | cc |
| 31 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 put | nsubj |
| 32 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 feared | conj |
| 33 | up | up | ADP | _ | 32 put | compound:prt |
| 34 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 boxes | compound |
| 35 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 put | obj |
| 36 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 38 eat | mark |
| 37 | owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 eat | nsubj |
| 38 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 put | advcl |
| 39 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 eat | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 rats | case |
| 41 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 lots | nmod |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 mice | cc |
| 43 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 rats | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 feared | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | past · passive | owls | many places | as signs of death | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | past | others = other | others | lucky property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | call | present | others = other | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | keep | to-infinitive | others = other not said here | others's patch | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patch=Theme | ||||
| 5 | find | infinitive | others = other not said here | partners | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent partner=Topic | ||||
| 6 | put up | past | farmers | owl boxes | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent box=Goal | ||||
| 7 | eat | present | owls | lots of rats and mice | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient | ||||
| 8 | sign | death | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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:17.
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, R8-pos-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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