Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report, sentence 32
Most owls hunt at night, and barn owls have heart-shaped faces.
Who acts: Most owls, barn owls · What happens: hunt, have, shape · To what, where: shaped faces
This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report» of the english 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 (Most owls, barn 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 owls | amod |
| 2 | owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hunt | nsubj |
| 3 | hunt | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 night | case |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hunt | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 have | cc |
| 8 | barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 owls | compound |
| 9 | owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 have | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hunt | conj |
| 11 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shaped | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 shaped | punct |
| 13 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 faces | amod |
| 14 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 have | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hunt | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | present | Most owls | night | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have | present | barn owls | shaped faces | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient | ||||
| 3 | shape | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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:english:023-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report.lesson:32.
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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