Birds of prey and owls, sentence 9

An owl can turn its head about 270 degrees, three quarters of a circle, because its eyes are fixed tubes that cannot roll; it has 14 neck bones.

Who acts: owl, eyes, fixed tubes, surface · What happens: turn, fix, be, not roll, have · To what, where: head, fixed tubes, 14 neck bones

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 (owl, eyes, fixed tubes, 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 owl	det
2	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 head	nmod:poss
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obj
7	about	about	ADV	_	8 270	advmod
8	270	270	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 degrees	nummod
9	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turn	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 quarters	punct
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 quarters	nummod
12	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 degrees	appos
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 circle	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 circle	det
15	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 quarters	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 turn	punct
17	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 tubes	mark
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 eyes	nmod:poss
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 tubes	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 tubes	cop
21	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 tubes	amod
22	tubes	tube	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turn	advcl
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 roll	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 roll	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 roll	advmod
26	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 tubes	acl:relcl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 has	punct
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 has	nsubj
29	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	parataxis
30	14	14	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	32 bones	nummod
31	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bones	compound
32	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 has	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 turn	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	turn	can	a owl	surface's head	270 degrees obl	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme
2	fix	participle				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	is a	present	surface's eyes	fixed tubes		tree rules
4	not roll	can	fixed tubes			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	have	present	surface	14 neck bones		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=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:9.

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, R7-rel-agree ×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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