--- title: The elf owl of the deserts of the USA and Mexico weighs about 40 gra… — Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf ow… · tree and pragmatics description: The elf owl of the deserts of the USA and Mexico weighs about 40 grams, about as much as a sparrow, often nests in old woodpecker holes in saguaro cactuses and eats moths, crickets and even scorpions. Who acts: elf owl. 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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 (elf 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:11 # text = The elf owl of the deserts of the USA and Mexico weighs about 40 grams, about as much as a sparrow, often nests in old woodpecker holes in saguaro cactuses and eats moths, crickets and even scorpions. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 elf elf NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 owl owl NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 deserts desert NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 USA USA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 Mexico Mexico PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 weighs weigh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 about about ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 40 40 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 grams gram NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obl:unmarked 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 about about ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 18 as as ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 parataxis _ _ 20 as as ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 sparrow sparrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 often often ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 nests nest VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 woodpecker woodpecker NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 holes hole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 saguaro saguaro NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 cactuses cactus NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 35 moths moth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 crickets cricket NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 conj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 even even ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 scorpions scorpion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 conj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **weigh** | present | the elf owl of the deserts of the USA and Mexico | 40 grams | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme gram=Value | | 2 | **nest** | present | the elf owl of the deserts of the USA and Mexico *not said here* | | | old woodpecker holes in saguaro cactuses | | often *property* | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **eat** | present | the elf owl of the deserts of the USA and Mexico *not said here* | moths and crickets and scorpions | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moth=Patient | 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:11`. **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): 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. 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