--- title: Some are as big as a toddler, some as small as a sparrow, some live… — Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf ow… · tree and pragmatics description: Some are as big as a toddler, some as small as a sparrow, some live in holes in the ground and one wades into rivers for fish. Who acts: Some, one. A sentence of the lesson «Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf owls and burrowing owls» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/301-owls-of-the-world-barn-owls-eagle-owls-elf-owls-and-burrowing-owls/1/) [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/) / [Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle ow…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/301-owls-of-the-world-barn-owls-eagle-owls-elf-owls-and-burrowing-owls/) / 1 # Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf owls and burrowing owls, sentence 1 Some are as big as a toddler, some as small as a sparrow, some live in holes in the ground and one wades into rivers for fish. **Who acts:** Some, one · **What happens:** be, live, wade · **To what, where:** holes, rivers This is a sentence of the lesson «Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf owls and burrowing 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 (Some, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:301-owls-of-the-world-barn-owls-eagle-owls-elf-owls-and-burrowing-owls.lesson:1 # text = Some are as big as a toddler, some as small as a sparrow, some live in holes in the ground and one wades into rivers for fish. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 301-owls-of-the-world-barn-owls-eagle-owls-elf-owls-and-burrowing-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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 as as ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 as as ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 toddler toddler NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 11 nsubj _ _ 10 as as ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 12 as as ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 sparrow sparrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 17 nsubj _ _ 17 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 holes hole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nsubj _ _ 25 wades wade VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 26 into into ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 30 . . 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** | present | Some | | | | | as a toddler; big *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | some | | | | | as a sparrow | tree rules | | 3 | **live** | present | some | | | holes in the ground | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hole=Location | | 4 | **wade** | present | one | | | rivers | | for fish | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into river=Destination | 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:301-owls-of-the-world-barn-owls-eagle-owls-elf-owls-and-burrowing-owls.lesson:1`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle ow…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/301-owls-of-the-world-barn-owls-eagle-owls-elf-owls-and-burrowing-owls/0/) - next →: [Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle ow…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/301-owls-of-the-world-barn-owls-eagle-owls-elf-owls-and-burrowing-owls/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/301-owls-of-the-world-barn-owls-eagle-owls-elf-owls-and-burrowing-owls/)