Wild animals and tall tales, sentence 12
Owls can turn their heads about 270 degrees, three-quarters of a circle, and special blood vessels let them do it safely.
Who acts: Owls, special blood vessels, camels · What happens: turn, let, do · To what, where: heads, camels, head
This is a sentence of the lesson «Wild animals and tall tales» of the myths 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, special blood vessels, camels), 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 | 3 turn | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 turn | aux |
| 3 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 heads | nmod:poss |
| 5 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turn | obj |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 270 | advmod |
| 7 | 270 | 270 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 degrees | nummod |
| 8 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turn | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 quarters | punct |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 quarters | nummod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 three | punct |
| 12 | quarters | quarter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 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 | _ | 21 let | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 let | cc |
| 18 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 vessels | amod |
| 19 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 vessels | compound |
| 20 | vessels | vessel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 let | nsubj |
| 21 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 turn | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 let | obj |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 let | xcomp |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 do | obj |
| 25 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 23 do | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | can | Owls | camels's heads | 270 degrees obl | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||
| 2 | let | infinitive | special blood vessels | camels = camel | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | infinitive | camels = camel not said here | head | safely property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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:myths:008-wild-animals-and-tall-tales.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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