Birds of prey and owls, sentence 4

Pictures get them wrong: an owl cannot turn its head all the way round, owls are not the cleverest birds, and a bald eagle is not bald at all.

Who acts: Pictures, owl, owls, bald eagle · What happens: get, not turn, not be · To what, where: Owls, head, cleverest birds

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 (Pictures, owl, owls, bald eagle), 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	Pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	nsubj
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 get	obj
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 get	xcomp
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 get	punct
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 owl	det
7	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turn	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 turn	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 turn	advmod
10	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 get	parataxis
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 head	nmod:poss
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turn	obj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 way	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 way	det
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 round	obl
16	round	round	ADV	_	10 turn	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 birds	punct
18	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 birds	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 birds	cop
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 birds	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 birds	det
22	cleverest	clever	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 birds	amod
23	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 turn	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 bald	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 bald	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 eagle	det
27	bald	bald	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 eagle	amod
28	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bald	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 bald	cop
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 bald	advmod
31	bald	bald	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 turn	conj
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 all	fixed
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 bald	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 get	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	present	Pictures	Owls = owl	wrong property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	not turn	can	a owl	pellet's head	round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme
3	not is a	present	owls	the cleverest birds		tree rules
4	not is	present	a bald eagle		all obl; bald property	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:4.

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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