--- title: Burrowing owls spread animal dung around their burrows; the dung att… — Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf ow… · tree and pragmatics description: Burrowing owls spread animal dung around their burrows; the dung attracts dung beetles, which the owls eat, a kind of bait and tool use. Who acts: Burrowing owls, dung, owls. A sentence of the lesson «Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf owls and burrowing owls» of the biology course of Mov --- [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/13/) [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/) / 13 # Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf owls and burrowing owls, sentence 13 Burrowing owls spread animal dung around their burrows; the dung attracts dung beetles, which the owls eat, a kind of bait and tool use. **Who acts:** Burrowing owls, dung, owls · **What happens:** spread, attract, eat · **To what, where:** animal dung, burrows, dung beetles 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 (Burrowing owls, dung, owls), 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:13 # text = Burrowing owls spread animal dung around their burrows; the dung attracts dung beetles, which the owls eat, a kind of bait and tool use. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Burrowing burrow ADJ JJ _ 2 amod _ _ 2 owls owl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 spread spread VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 dung dung NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 around around ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 burrows burrow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:nmod 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 dung dung NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 attracts attract VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 13 dung dung NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 beetles beetle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 obj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 owls owl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 bait bait NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 tool tool NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 use use NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spread** | present | Burrowing owls | animal dung | | scorpions's burrows | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dung=Theme around burrow=Destination | | 2 | **attract** | present | the dung | dung beetles | | | | | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beetle=Patient | | 3 | **eat** | present | the owls | dung beetles | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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:13`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/301-owls-of-the-world-barn-owls-eagle-owls-elf-owls-and-burrowing-owls/11/) - next →: [Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle ow…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/301-owls-of-the-world-barn-owls-eagle-owls-elf-owls-and-burrowing-owls/14/) - ↑ 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/)