Birds of prey and owls, sentence 10
A barn owl's face funnels sound to ears set at different heights, so it can find a mouse in total darkness by sound alone.
Who acts: face · What happens: funnel, set, find · To what, where: sound, ears, different heights, mouse, total darkness
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 (face), 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 | 3 owl | det |
| 2 | barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 owl | compound |
| 3 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 face | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 owl | case |
| 5 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 funnels | nsubj |
| 6 | funnels | funnel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 funnels | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 ears | case |
| 9 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 funnels | obl |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 ears | acl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 heights | case |
| 12 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 heights | amod |
| 13 | heights | height | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 set | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 find | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 find | advmod |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 find | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 find | aux |
| 18 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 funnels | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 mouse | det |
| 20 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 find | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 darkness | case |
| 22 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 darkness | amod |
| 23 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 find | obl |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 sound | case |
| 25 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 find | obl |
| 26 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 25 sound | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 funnels | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | funnel | present | a barn owl's face | sound | ears | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent sound=Theme to ear=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | set | participle | ears not said here | different heights | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at height=Destination | ||||
| 3 | find | can | face | a mouse | total darkness | by sound | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Topic |
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:10.
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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