How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry, sentence 15

A tawny owl sleeps by day in streaky brown feathers that match bark; if small birds or crows find it, they mob it with loud alarm calls.

Who acts: tawny owl, streaky brown feathers, small birds, birds · What happens: sleep, match, find, mob · To what, where: streaky brown feathers, bark

This is a sentence of the lesson «How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry» 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 (tawny owl, streaky brown feathers, small birds, birds), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 owl	det
2	tawny	tawny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 owl	amod
3	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sleeps	nsubj
4	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 mob	parataxis
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 day	case
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sleeps	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 feathers	case
8	streaky	streaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 feathers	amod
9	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 feathers	amod
10	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sleeps	obl
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 match	nsubj
12	match	match	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 feathers	acl:relcl
13	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 match	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 mob	punct
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 find	mark
16	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 birds	amod
17	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 find	nsubj
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 crows	cc
19	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 birds	conj
20	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 mob	advcl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 find	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 find	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 mob	nsubj
24	mob	mob	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 mob	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	29 calls	case
27	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 calls	amod
28	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 calls	compound
29	calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 mob	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sleeps	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	a tawny owl		streaky brown feathers	day		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in feather=Location
2	match	present	streaky brown feathers	bark				vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bark=Patient
3	find a condition, not said to happen	present	small birds or crows	bark				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	mob	present	birds = bird	bark			with loud alarm calls	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with call=Instrument

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:051-how-animals-hide.lesson:15.

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): R6-punct-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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