Birds of prey and owls, sentence 2

Owls are the night shift: soft fringed feathers make their flight silent, and the heart-shaped face of a barn owl is a dish that funnels sound into its ears.

Who acts: Owls, soft fringed feathers, shaped face, dish · What happens: be, make, shape, funnel · To what, where: night shift, flight, dish, sound, ears

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 (Owls, soft fringed feathers, shaped face, dish), 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	Owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shift	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 shift	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shift	det
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shift	compound
5	shift	shift	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 soft	punct
7	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 feathers	amod
8	fringed	fringe	ADJ	_	9 feathers	amod
9	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 make	nsubj
10	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 shift	parataxis
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 flight	nmod:poss
12	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 make	obj
13	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 make	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 face	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 dish	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 face	det
17	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shaped	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 shaped	punct
19	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 face	amod
20	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dish	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 owl	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 owl	det
23	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 owl	compound
24	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 face	nmod
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 dish	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 dish	det
27	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 make	conj
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 funnels	nsubj
29	funnels	funnel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 dish	acl:relcl
30	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 funnels	obj
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 ears	case
32	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 ears	nmod:poss
33	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 funnels	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 shift	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Owls	the night shift			tree rules
2	make	present	soft fringed feathers	feathers's flight		silent property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset flight=Product
3	shape	participle					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	is a	present	the shaped face of a barn owl	a dish			tree rules
5	funnel	present	a dish	sound	face's ears		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sound=Theme into ear=Destination

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:2.

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): R8-pos-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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