How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pellets and owl myths, sentence 3

Its ears are often set at different heights, so it can tell where a squeak comes from both left and right and up and down, and a great grey owl can dive through deep snow onto a vole it has only heard.

Who acts: machine, squeak, great grey owl, owl · What happens: set, tell, come, dive, hear · To what, where: ears, different heights, left, deep snow, vole · 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 (machine, squeak, great grey owl, 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	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 ears	nmod:poss
2	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 set	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 set	aux:pass
4	often	often	ADV	_	5 set	advmod
5	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 heights	case
7	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 heights	amod
8	heights	height	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 set	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 tell	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tell	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	aux
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 set	conj
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 comes	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 squeak	det
16	squeak	squeak	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 comes	nsubj
17	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	advcl
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 left	case
19	both	both	CCONJ	_	20 left	cc:preconj
20	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 comes	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 right	cc
22	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 left	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 up	cc
24	up	up	ADV	_	20 left	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 down	cc
26	down	down	ADV	_	24 up	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 dive	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 dive	cc
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 owl	det
30	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 owl	amod
31	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 owl	amod
32	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 dive	nsubj
33	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 dive	aux
34	dive	dive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 set	conj
35	through	through	ADP	_	37 snow	case
36	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 snow	amod
37	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 dive	obl
38	onto	onto	ADP	_	40 vole	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 vole	det
40	vole	vole	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 dive	obl
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 heard	nsubj
42	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 heard	aux
43	only	only	ADV	_	44 heard	advmod
44	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 vole	acl:relcl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 set	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set	present · passive		machine's ears	different heights	often property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at height=Destination
2	tell speech: assert	can	machine				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	present	a squeak		left		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from left=Initial_Location
4	dive	can	a great grey owl		deep snow	onto a vole	vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through snow=Location
5	hear	present · perfect	owl	a vole not said here			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer vole=Stimulus

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:3.

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): 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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