Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show, sentence 12

Owls fly almost silently thanks to soft fringed feather edges, and an owl can turn its head about three quarters of the way round, but not a full circle; most owls hunt at night, and no owl can be trained to carry letters.

Who acts: Owls, owl, most owls · What happens: fly, fringe, turn, hunt, train, carry · To what, where: head, owl, letters

This is a sentence of the lesson «Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show» 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, owl, most owls), 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 fly	nsubj
2	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	almost	almost	ADV	_	4 silently	advmod
4	silently	silently	ADV	_	2 fly	advmod
5	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fly	discourse
6	to	to	ADP	_	10 edges	case
7	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 edges	amod
8	fringed	fringe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 edges	amod
9	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 edges	compound
10	edges	edge	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thanks	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 turn	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 turn	cc
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 owl	det
14	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 turn	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 turn	aux
16	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 fly	conj
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 head	nmod:poss
18	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 turn	obj
19	about	about	ADV	_	20 three	advmod
20	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 quarters	nummod
21	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 turn	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 way	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 way	det
24	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 quarters	nmod
25	round	round	ADV	_	24 way	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 circle	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 circle	cc
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 circle	advmod
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 circle	det
30	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 circle	amod
31	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 quarters	conj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 hunt	punct
33	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	34 owls	amod
34	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 hunt	nsubj
35	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 circle	conj
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 night	case
37	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 hunt	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 trained	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 trained	cc
40	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	41 owl	det
41	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 trained	nsubj:pass
42	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 trained	aux
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 trained	aux:pass
44	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 hunt	conj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 carry	mark
46	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 trained	advcl
47	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 carry	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fly	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fly	present	Owls			silently property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fringe	participle					tree rules
3	turn	can	a owl	owl's head		three quarters of the way but a full circle obl	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme
4	hunt	present	most owls		night		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	train	can · passive		no owl			vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	carry	to-infinitive		letters			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme

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:094-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show.lesson:12.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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