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title: A barn owl family can eat thousands of mice and voles in a year, so… — Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our… · tree and pragmatics
description: A barn owl family can eat thousands of mice and voles in a year, so farmers put up owl boxes. Who acts: owl family, farmers. A sentence of the lesson «Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food, sentence 19

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A barn owl family can eat thousands of mice and voles in a year, so farmers put up owl boxes.

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**Who acts:** owl family, farmers · **What happens:** eat, put up · **To what, where:** thousands, owl boxes

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food» 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 (owl family, farmers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:291-bees-worms-and-soil-the-hidden-helpers-of-our-food.lesson:19
# text = A barn owl family can eat thousands of mice and voles in a year, so farmers put up owl boxes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 291-bees-worms-and-soil-the-hidden-helpers-of-our-food.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	barn	barn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	voles	vole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	put	put	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	boxes	box	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | can | a owl family | thousands of mice and voles |  |  | year |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Patient |
| 2 | **put up** | present | farmers | owl boxes |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent box=Goal |

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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:291-bees-worms-and-soil-the-hidden-helpers-of-our-food.lesson:19`.

**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): R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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