How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pellets and owl myths, sentence 5
Pull it apart with tweezers and you can count the skulls of the mice and voles it ate.
Who acts: you, owl · What happens: pull, count, eat · To what, where: owl, skulls, mice
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 | Pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Pull | obj |
| 3 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 1 Pull | advmod |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 tweezers | case |
| 5 | tweezers | tweezer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Pull | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 count | cc |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 count | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 count | aux |
| 9 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Pull | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 skulls | det |
| 11 | skulls | skull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 count | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 mice | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mice | det |
| 14 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 skulls | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 voles | cc |
| 16 | voles | vole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 mice | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 ate | nsubj |
| 18 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 mice | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pull | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | imperative | you not said here | owl | with tweezers; apart property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | count | can | you | the skulls of the mice and voles | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skull=Theme | ||||
| 3 | eat | past | owl | the mice and voles not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=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:5.
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. 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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