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title: The «twit-twoo» of a British wood is usually two tawny owls, one cal… — Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf ow… · tree and pragmatics
description: The «twit-twoo» of a British wood is usually two tawny owls, one calling «ke-wick» and another answering «hoo-hoo-oo»; a tawny owl pair may stay in the same wood for life. Who acts: twit twoo, one, tawny owl pair. A sentence of the lesson «Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf owls and burro
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# Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf owls and burrowing owls, sentence 15

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The «twit-twoo» of a British wood is usually two tawny owls, one calling «ke-wick» and another answering «hoo-hoo-oo»; a tawny owl pair may stay in the same wood for life.

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**Who acts:** twit twoo, one, tawny owl pair · **What happens:** be, call, answer, stay · **To what, where:** two tawny owls, hoo hoo oo, same wood · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (twit twoo, one, tawny owl pair), 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:15
# text = The «twit-twoo» of a British wood is usually two tawny owls, one calling «ke-wick» and another answering «hoo-hoo-oo»; a tawny owl pair may stay in the same wood for life.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
3	twit	twit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
5	twoo	twoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
12	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	tawny	tawny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	owls	owl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nsubj	_	_
18	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	acl	_	_
19	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
20	ke	ke	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	compound	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
22	wick	wick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	parataxis	_	_
23	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	conj	_	_
26	answering	answer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
27	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	_
28	hoo	hoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	_
30	hoo	hoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	_
32	oo	oo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
33	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	tawny	tawny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
39	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
45	for	for	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=44:nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the twit twoo of a British wood | two tawny owls |  |  |  | usually *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** *speech: assert* | gerund | one | two tawny owls *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | hoo hoo oo |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent oo=Eventuality |
| 4 | **stay** | may | a tawny owl pair |  |  | the same wood |  | for life | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location |

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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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**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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