Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals, sentence 7
An owl cannot move its eyes, so it turns its head, but only about three quarters of the way round.
Who acts: owl, echolocation · What happens: not move, turn · To what, where: eyes, head
This is a sentence of the lesson «Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals» of the everyday 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, echolocation), 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 | 5 move | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 move | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 move | advmod |
| 5 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 move | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 turns | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 turns | advmod |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 turns | nsubj |
| 11 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 move | advcl |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turns | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 quarters | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 quarters | cc |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 quarters | advmod |
| 17 | about | about | ADV | _ | 18 three | advmod |
| 18 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 quarters | nummod |
| 19 | quarters | quarter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 turns | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 way | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 way | det |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 quarters | nmod |
| 23 | round | round | ADV | _ | 22 way | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 move | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not move | can | a owl | echolocation's eyes | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 2 | turn | present | echolocation | echolocation's head | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme head=Result |
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:everyday:071-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness.lesson:7.
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. 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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness/7/