How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pellets and owl myths, sentence 6
Stories call owls wise, unlucky or ill when they fly by day, but the real owl is simply a superb hunter.
Who acts: Stories, real owl · What happens: call, fly, be · To what, where: owls, superb hunter · 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 (Stories, real 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 | Stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 call | nsubj |
| 2 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 call | obj |
| 4 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 call | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 unlucky | punct |
| 6 | unlucky | unlucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wise | conj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 ill | cc |
| 8 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wise | conj |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 fly | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fly | nsubj |
| 11 | fly | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wise | advcl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 day | case |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fly | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hunter | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 hunter | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 owl | det |
| 17 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 owl | amod |
| 18 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hunter | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 hunter | cop |
| 20 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 23 hunter | advmod |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 hunter | det |
| 22 | superb | superb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hunter | amod |
| 23 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 call | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 call | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | Stories | owls | wise property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent owl=Recipient | |||
| 2 | fly | present | Stories = story | day | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the real owl | a superb hunter | simply property | tree rules |
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:6.
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, 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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