--- title: Snowy owls are wild birds of the Arctic tundra that hunt lemmings, o… — Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf ow… · tree and pragmatics description: Snowy owls are wild birds of the Arctic tundra that hunt lemmings, often in daylight; after popular films some people bought pet owls and later abandoned them, bird charities reported. Who acts: Snowy owls, wild birds, people, bird charities. 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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 (Snowy owls, wild birds, people, bird charities), 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:14 # text = Snowy owls are wild birds of the Arctic tundra that hunt lemmings, often in daylight; after popular films some people bought pet owls and later abandoned them, bird charities reported. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Snowy snowy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 owls owl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 Arctic arctic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 tundra tundra NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 hunt hunt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 12 lemmings lemming NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 often often ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 daylight daylight NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 18 after after ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 popular popular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 films film NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 21 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 22 det _ _ 22 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 bought buy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 24 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 owls owl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 28 advmod _ _ 28 abandoned abandon VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 charities charity NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 reported report VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5: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 a** | present | Snowy owls | wild birds | | | | of the Arctic tundra | tree rules | | 2 | **hunt** | present | wild birds | lemmings | | daylight | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lemming=Theme in daylight=Location | | 3 | **buy** | past | some people | pet owls | | | after popular films | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent owl=Theme | | 4 | **abandon** | past | some people *not said here* | people | | | | late *property* | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme they=Source | | 5 | **report** | past | bird charities | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:14`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle ow…, 13](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/) - next →: [Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle ow…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/301-owls-of-the-world-barn-owls-eagle-owls-elf-owls-and-burrowing-owls/15/) - ↑ 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/)