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title: Owls are mostly active at night and can turn their heads about 270 d… — Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls · tree and pragmatics
description: Owls are mostly active at night and can turn their heads about 270 degrees, three-quarters of the way round, not a full circle. Who acts: Owls. A sentence of the lesson «Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls, sentence 12

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Owls are mostly active at night and can turn their heads about 270 degrees, three-quarters of the way round, not a full circle.

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**Who acts:** Owls · **What happens:** be, turn · **To what, where:** heads

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls» 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 (Owls), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls.lesson:12
# text = Owls are mostly active at night and can turn their heads about 270 degrees, three-quarters of the way round, not a full circle.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls.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): R5-strong ×1
1	Owls	owl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
13	270	270	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	quarters	quarter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	appos	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	round	round	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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** | present | Owls |  |  |  | night | active, mostly, round *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn** | can | Owls *not said here* | predators's heads |  |  |  | 270 degrees *obl* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls.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. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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