Birds of prey and owls, sentence 3

Owls swallow mice whole and cough up the fur and bones as a pellet, which is why a class can rebuild a whole vole skeleton with tweezers.

Who acts: Owls, class · What happens: swallow, cough up, be, rebuild · To what, where: mice, fur, whole vole skeleton

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, class), 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	2 swallow	nsubj
2	swallow	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 swallow	obj
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 swallow	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cough	cc
6	cough	cough	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 swallow	conj
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 cough	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fur	det
9	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cough	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bones	cc
11	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fur	conj
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 pellet	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 pellet	det
14	pellet	pellet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cough	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 rebuild	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 why	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 why	cop
18	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	22 rebuild	advmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 class	det
20	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rebuild	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 rebuild	aux
22	rebuild	rebuild	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 pellet	acl:relcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 skeleton	det
24	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 skeleton	amod
25	vole	vole	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 skeleton	compound
26	skeleton	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rebuild	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 tweezers	case
28	tweezers	tweezer	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 rebuild	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 swallow	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	swallow	present	Owls	mice	whole property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Patient
2	cough up	present	Owls not said here	the fur and bones	as a pellet	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fur=Theme
3	is	present			why property	tree rules
4	rebuild	can	a class	a whole vole skeleton	with tweezers	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skeleton=Result

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:3.

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, 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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