--- title: At the other end of the scale the Eurasian eagle owl, with wings alm… — Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf ow… · tree and pragmatics description: At the other end of the scale the Eurasian eagle owl, with wings almost two metres across, can catch hares and even young foxes, while the elf owl of the desert weighs about as much as a sparrow and eats moths and scorpions. Who acts: Eurasian eagle owl, 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 (Eurasian eagle owl, 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:4 # text = At the other end of the scale the Eurasian eagle owl, with wings almost two metres across, can catch hares and even young foxes, while the elf owl of the desert weighs about as much as a sparrow and eats moths and 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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 At at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 scale scale NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 Eurasian eurasian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 10 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 owl owl NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 15 almost almost ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod:unmarked 18 across across ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 22 hares hare NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 even even ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advmod 25 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 foxes fox NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 while while SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 elf elf NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 owl owl NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 desert desert NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 weighs weigh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 36 about about ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 37 as as ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 obj _ _ 39 as as ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 sparrow sparrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 conj _ _ 44 moths moth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obj _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 scorpions scorpion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 conj _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **catch** | can | the Eurasian eagle owl with wings | hares and young foxes | | | at the other end of the scale | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent hare=Theme at end=Asset | | 2 | **weigh** | present | the elf owl of the desert | much | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme much=Value | | 3 | **eat** | present | the elf owl of the desert *not said here* | moths 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:4`. **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 ×3, 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…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/301-owls-of-the-world-barn-owls-eagle-owls-elf-owls-and-burrowing-owls/3/) - next →: [Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle ow…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/301-owls-of-the-world-barn-owls-eagle-owls-elf-owls-and-burrowing-owls/5/) - ↑ 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/)