--- title: Owls are good hunters but not cleverer than other birds; an owl's bi… — More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcup… · tree and pragmatics description: Owls are good hunters but not cleverer than other birds; an owl's big face is mostly eyes and ears for hunting, and crows, ravens and parrots do much better in puzzle tests. Who acts: Owls, big face. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Owls, big face), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons.lesson:13 # text = Owls are good hunters but not cleverer than other birds; an owl's big face is mostly eyes and ears for hunting, and crows, ravens and parrots do much better in puzzle tests. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2 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 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 hunters hunter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 but but CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 cleverer clever ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 conj _ _ 8 than than ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct 12 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 owl owl NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ _ 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=7:conj 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 hunting hunting NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 crows crow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:nsubj 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 ravens raven NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 parrots parrot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 31 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 much much ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 conj _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 puzzle puzzle NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 tests test NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:obl 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Owls | good hunters and eyes and ears | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **be** | | Owls *not said here* | | | | | than other birds | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | a owl's big face | eyes and ears | | | | for hunting; mostly *property* | tree rules | 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:154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [More animal myths: red rags, camel hum…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons/12/) - next →: [More animal myths: red rags, camel hum…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons/)