How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pellets and owl myths, sentence 18

Many owls hunt at dawn and dusk, and the little owl and short-eared owl often hunt by day; owls are not blinded by daylight, because their pupils shrink like ours.

Who acts: Many owls, little owl, daylight, pupils · What happens: hunt, not blind, shrink · To what, where: owls

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 (Many owls, little owl, daylight, pupils), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 owls	amod
2	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hunt	nsubj
3	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 dawn	case
5	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hunt	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 dusk	cc
7	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dawn	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 owl	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 owl	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 owl	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 owl	amod
12	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hunt	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 owl	cc
14	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 eared	amod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 short	punct
16	eared	ear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 owl	amod
17	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 owl	conj
18	often	often	ADV	_	19 hunt	advmod
19	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hunt	conj
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 day	case
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hunt	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 blinded	punct
23	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 blinded	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 blinded	aux:pass
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 blinded	advmod
26	blinded	blind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 owl	conj
27	by	by	ADP	_	28 daylight	case
28	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 blinded	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 shrink	punct
30	because	because	SCONJ	_	33 shrink	mark
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 pupils	nmod:poss
32	pupils	pupil	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 shrink	nsubj
33	shrink	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 blinded	advcl
34	like	like	ADP	_	35 ours	case
35	ours	our	PRON	Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 shrink	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hunt	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	present	Many owls		dawn		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hunt	present	the little owl and eared owl		day	often property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not blind	present · passive	daylight	owls			tree rules
4	shrink	present	others's pupils			like ours	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:18.

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 ×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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