Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell, sentence 16
Owls hear so well that they can catch a mouse they cannot see.
Who acts: Owls, Snakes · What happens: hear, catch, not see · To what, where: mouse
This is a sentence of the lesson «Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell» of the world 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, Snakes), 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 hear | nsubj |
| 2 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 well | advmod |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 hear | advmod |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 catch | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 catch | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 catch | aux |
| 8 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 hear | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 mouse | det |
| 10 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 catch | obj |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 see | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 see | advmod |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 mouse | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | Owls | well property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | catch | can | Snakes = snake | a mouse | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not see | can | Snakes = snake | a mouse not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mouse=Stimulus |
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:world:079-senses-of-animals.lesson:16.
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): no change. 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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