How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pellets and owl myths, sentence 4
Think of an owl pellet on a classroom table: a ball of fur and tiny bones the owl coughed up, not poo.
Who acts: you, owl · What happens: think, cough up · To what, where: poo
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 (you, 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 | Think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 pellet | case |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pellet | det |
| 4 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pellet | compound |
| 5 | pellet | pellet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Think | obl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 table | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 table | det |
| 8 | classroom | classroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 table | compound |
| 9 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pellet | nmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 ball | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 ball | det |
| 12 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pellet | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 fur | case |
| 14 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ball | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 bones | cc |
| 16 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bones | amod |
| 17 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fur | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 owl | det |
| 19 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 coughed | nsubj |
| 20 | coughed | cough | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ball | acl |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 coughed | compound:prt |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 poo | punct |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 poo | advmod |
| 24 | poo | poo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 coughed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Think | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | imperative | you not said here | of a owl pellet on a classroom table | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cough up | past | the owl | poo | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=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:4.
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. 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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