How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pellets and owl myths, sentence 9

A great grey owl can plunge through deep snow to grab a vole it has only heard.

Who acts: great grey owl, sound · What happens: plunge, grab, hear · To what, where: deep snow, vole

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 (great grey owl, sound), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 owl	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 owl	amod
3	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 owl	amod
4	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plunge	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 plunge	aux
6	plunge	plunge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 snow	case
8	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 snow	amod
9	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plunge	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 grab	mark
11	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 plunge	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 vole	det
13	vole	vole	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grab	obj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 heard	nsubj
15	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 heard	aux
16	only	only	ADV	_	17 heard	advmod
17	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 vole	acl:relcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 plunge	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	plunge	can	a great grey owl		deep snow	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through snow=Initial_Location
2	grab	to-infinitive	a great grey owl not said here	a vole		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vole=Theme
3	hear	present · perfect	sound	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:9.

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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