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title: Blakiston's fish owl of the Russian Far East and Japan is one of the… — Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf ow… · tree and pragmatics
description: Blakiston's fish owl of the Russian Far East and Japan is one of the heaviest owls; it grabs salmon with rough, spiky soles and needs old hollow trees by rivers to nest in, so it is rare. Who acts: owl. A sentence of the lesson «Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf owls and burrowing owls» 
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# Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf owls and burrowing owls, sentence 10

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Blakiston's fish owl of the Russian Far East and Japan is one of the heaviest owls; it grabs salmon with rough, spiky soles and needs old hollow trees by rivers to nest in, so it is rare.

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**Who acts:** owl · **What happens:** be, grab, need, nest · **To what, where:** one, salmon, old hollow trees

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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 (owl), 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:10
# text = Blakiston's fish owl of the Russian Far East and Japan is one of the heaviest owls; it grabs salmon with rough, spiky soles and needs old hollow trees by rivers to nest in, so it is rare.
# 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 ×1
1	Blakiston	Blakiston	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	Russian	Russian	PROPN	NNP	_	8	amod	_	_
8	Far	Far	PROPN	NNP	_	9	amod	_	_
9	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	heaviest	heavy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
17	owls	owl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	grabs	grab	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	salmon	salmon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	spiky	spiky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	soles	sole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
29	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	nest	nest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	acl	_	_
36	in	in	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
41	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is a** | present |  | one |  |  |  | of the heaviest owls | tree rules |
| 2 | **grab** | present | owl | salmon |  |  |  | with rough spiky soles | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salmon=Theme |
| 3 | **need** | present | owl *not said here* | old hollow trees |  |  |  | by rivers | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot tree=Theme |
| 4 | **nest** | to-infinitive | owl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | owl |  |  |  |  | rare *property* | tree rules |

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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:301-owls-of-the-world-barn-owls-eagle-owls-elf-owls-and-burrowing-owls.lesson:10`.

**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 ×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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