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title: The twit-twoo call is usually two tawny owls: one calls kee-wick and… — Forests: woodland through the year and the great… · tree and pragmatics
description: The twit-twoo call is usually two tawny owls: one calls kee-wick and another answers hoo-hooo; owls cannot move their eyes, so they turn their heads, up to about 270 degrees. Who acts: twit twoo call, one, another, owls. A sentence of the lesson «Forests: woodland through the year and the great nort
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# Forests: woodland through the year and the great northern forest, sentence 14

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The twit-twoo call is usually two tawny owls: one calls kee-wick and another answers hoo-hooo; owls cannot move their eyes, so they turn their heads, up to about 270 degrees.

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**Who acts:** twit twoo call, one, another, owls, beats · **What happens:** be, call, answers, not move, turn · **To what, where:** two tawny owls, hoo, eyes, heads, 270 degrees · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Forests: woodland through the year and the great northern forest» 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 (twit twoo call, one, another, owls), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:012-forests-woodland-through-the-year.lesson:14
# text = The twit-twoo call is usually two tawny owls: one calls kee-wick and another answers hoo-hooo; owls cannot move their eyes, so they turn their heads, up to about 270 degrees.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 012-forests-woodland-through-the-year.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	twit	twit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	twoo	twoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	tawny	tawny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	owls	owl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:nummod
13	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod:unmarked	_	_
14	kee	kee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
16	wick	wick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	another	another	PRON	DT	PronType=Ind	19	nsubj	_	_
19	answers	answers	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
20	hoo	hoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	_
22	hooo	hooo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	owls	owl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	parataxis	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	up	up	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	about	about	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	270	270	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	41	nummod	_	_
41	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the twit twoo call | two tawny owls and kee wick |  |  |  | usually *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** |  | one |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **answers** | present | another | hoo |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **move** | can | owls | beats's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
| 5 | **turn** | present | beats *= beat* | beats's heads |  | 270 degrees |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme to degree=Trajectory |

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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.

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**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): 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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