Birds of prey and owls, sentence 16
The wise owl idea comes from ancient Greece, where the owl was the bird of Athena, goddess of wisdom; in puzzle tests crows and parrots do much better.
Who acts: wise owl idea, owl · What happens: come, be · To what, where: ancient Greece, bird
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 (wise owl idea, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 idea | det |
| 2 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 idea | amod |
| 3 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 idea | compound |
| 4 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 comes | nsubj |
| 5 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Greece | case |
| 7 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Greece | amod |
| 8 | Greece | Greece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 comes | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bird | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 bird | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 owl | det |
| 12 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bird | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 bird | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bird | det |
| 15 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Greece | acl:relcl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Athena | case |
| 17 | Athena | Athena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 bird | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 goddess | punct |
| 19 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Athena | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 wisdom | case |
| 21 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 goddess | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 better | punct |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 tests | case |
| 24 | puzzle | puzzle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tests | compound |
| 25 | tests | test | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 do | obl |
| 26 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 do | nsubj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 parrots | cc |
| 28 | parrots | parrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 crows | conj |
| 29 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 better | aux |
| 30 | much | much | ADV | _ | 31 better | advmod |
| 31 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 comes | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 comes | 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 | come | present | the wise owl idea | ancient Greece | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from greece=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the owl | the bird | of Athena | 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:034-birds-of-prey-and-owls.lesson:16.
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, 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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