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title: Owls are expert hunters with superb hearing, but crows and parrots s… — Cartoon pets and animal myths put right · tree and pragmatics
description: Owls are expert hunters with superb hearing, but crows and parrots solve much harder puzzles than owls. Who acts: Owls, crows. A sentence of the lesson «Cartoon pets and animal myths put right» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Cartoon pets and animal myths put right, sentence 14

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Owls are expert hunters with superb hearing, but crows and parrots solve much harder puzzles than owls.

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**Who acts:** Owls, crows · **What happens:** be, solve · **To what, where:** expert hunters, harder puzzles

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cartoon pets and animal myths put right» 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, crows), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:228-cartoon-pets-and-animal-myths-put-right.lesson:14
# text = Owls are expert hunters with superb hearing, but crows and parrots solve much harder puzzles than owls.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 228-cartoon-pets-and-animal-myths-put-right.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	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	expert	expert	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	superb	superb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	crows	crow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	parrots	parrot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	solve	solve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	much	much	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
16	puzzles	puzzle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	owls	owl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	.	.	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 a** | present | Owls | expert hunters |  |  |  | with superb hearing | tree rules |
| 2 | **solve** | present | crows and parrots | harder puzzles |  |  |  | than owls | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puzzle=Topic |

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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:228-cartoon-pets-and-animal-myths-put-right.lesson:14`.

**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/).

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