--- title: Owl eyes are fixed like tubes, so owls turn their heads instead, usi… — Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls · tree and pragmatics description: Owl eyes are fixed like tubes, so owls turn their heads instead, using 14 neck bones, twice as many as our 7. 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 pragmatics of every clau --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls/) / 13 # Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls, sentence 13 Owl eyes are fixed like tubes, so owls turn their heads instead, using 14 neck bones, twice as many as our 7. **Who acts:** owls · **What happens:** fix, turn, use · **To what, where:** Owl eyes, heads, 14 neck bones 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:13 # text = Owl eyes are fixed like tubes, so owls turn their heads instead, using 14 neck bones, twice as many as our 7. # 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): no change 1 Owl owl NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 fixed fix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 tubes tube NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 so so ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 9 owls owl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 instead instead ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 using use VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 16 14 14 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 17 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 22 advmod _ _ 21 as as ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 23 as as ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 nmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fix** | present · passive | | Owl eyes | | | | like tubes | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **turn** | present | owls | eyes's heads | | | | instead *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 3 | **use** | gerund | owls *not said here* | 14 neck bones | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient | 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](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:13`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls/12/) - next →: [Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls/)