Birds of prey and owls, sentence 8
Owl wing feathers have comb-like front edges, soft fringes and a velvety surface that muffle the sound of flying.
Who acts: wing feathers, velvety surface · What happens: have, muffle · To what, where: like front edges, sound
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 (wing feathers, velvety surface), 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 | Owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wing | compound |
| 2 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 feathers | compound |
| 3 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 like | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 like | punct |
| 7 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 edges | amod |
| 8 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 edges | amod |
| 9 | edges | edge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fringes | punct |
| 11 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fringes | amod |
| 12 | fringes | fringe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 edges | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 surface | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 surface | det |
| 15 | velvety | velvety | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 surface | amod |
| 16 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 edges | conj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 muffle | nsubj |
| 18 | muffle | muffle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 surface | acl:relcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sound | det |
| 20 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 muffle | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 flying | case |
| 22 | flying | flying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sound | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | wing feathers | like front edges and soft fringes and a velvety surface | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent edge=Patient | ||||
| 2 | muffle | present | a velvety surface | the sound of flying | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient |
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:8.
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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