Birds of prey and owls, sentence 0
Birds of prey, also called raptors, hunt other animals with sharp eyes, hooked beaks and gripping feet with curved talons.
Who acts: Birds · What happens: call, hunt, hook, grip, curve · To what, where: raptors, other animals, feet · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Birds of prey and owls» 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 (Birds), 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 | Birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hunt | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 prey | case |
| 3 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Birds | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 raptors | punct |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 called | advmod |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 raptors | acl |
| 7 | raptors | raptor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Birds | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Birds | punct |
| 9 | hunt | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 animals | amod |
| 11 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hunt | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 eyes | case |
| 13 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 eyes | amod |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hunt | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 beaks | punct |
| 16 | hooked | hook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 beaks | amod |
| 17 | beaks | beak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 eyes | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 gripping | cc |
| 19 | gripping | grip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 hunt | conj |
| 20 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 gripping | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 talons | case |
| 22 | curved | curve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 talons | amod |
| 23 | talons | talon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 feet | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 hunt | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | raptors not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hunt | present | Birds of prey and raptors | other animals | with sharp eyes and hooked beaks | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme | |||
| 3 | hook | participle | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | grip | gerund | Birds of prey and raptors not said here | feet | with curved talons | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent foot=Experiencer with talon=Instrument | |||
| 5 | curve | participle | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material |
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:034-birds-of-prey-and-owls.lesson:0.
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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