How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pellets and owl myths, sentence 20

Most owls get nearly all their water from their prey, because the bodies of mice and voles are mostly water, though they do sometimes drink and bathe in hot weather.

Who acts: Most owls, bodies · What happens: get, be, drink, bathe · To what, where: water, prey

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 (Most owls, bodies), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 owls	amod
2	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	nsubj
3	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	5 all	advmod
5	all	all	DET	_	7 water	det:predet
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 water	nmod:poss
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 prey	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 prey	nmod:poss
10	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 water	punct
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	21 water	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bodies	det
14	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 water	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 mice	case
16	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 bodies	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 voles	cc
18	voles	vole	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 mice	conj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 water	cop
20	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	21 water	advmod
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 drink	punct
23	though	though	SCONJ	_	27 drink	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 drink	nsubj
25	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 drink	aux
26	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 drink	advmod
27	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 get	advcl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 bathe	cc
29	bathe	bathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 drink	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 weather	case
31	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 weather	amod
32	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bathe	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 get	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	get	present	Most owls	places's water	places's prey		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Theme from prey=Source
2	is a	present	the bodies of mice and voles	water		mostly property	tree rules
3	drink	present · do-support	bodies = body			sometimes property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bathe	infinitive	bodies = body not said here			in hot weather	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in weather=Theme

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:20.

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): no change. 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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