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title: Owls are real wild hunters, not the wise teachers or post carriers o… — Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf ow… · tree and pragmatics
description: Owls are real wild hunters, not the wise teachers or post carriers of stories and films, and each kind fits its own home: the snowy owl the Arctic tundra, the burrowing owl the open grassland, the fish owl the old forests along rivers. Who acts: Owls, kind, snowy owl. A sentence of the lesson «Owls 
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# Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf owls and burrowing owls, sentence 5

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Owls are real wild hunters, not the wise teachers or post carriers of stories and films, and each kind fits its own home: the snowy owl the Arctic tundra, the burrowing owl the open grassland, the fish owl the old forests along rivers.

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**Who acts:** Owls, kind, snowy owl · **What happens:** be, fit, tundra, burrow · **To what, where:** real wild hunters, own home

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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 (Owls, kind, snowy 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:5
# text = Owls are real wild hunters, not the wise teachers or post carriers of stories and films, and each kind fits its own home: the snowy owl the Arctic tundra, the burrowing owl the open grassland, the fish owl the old forests along rivers.
# 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	Owls	owl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	post	post	X	AFX	_	13	compound	_	_
13	carriers	carrier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	fits	fit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	snowy	snowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	Arctic	arctic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	tundra	tundra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	acl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	burrowing	burrow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	amod	_	_
36	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	grassland	grassland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	appos	_	_
47	along	along	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Owls | real wild hunters and the wise teachers or post carriers of stories and films |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fit** | present | each kind | owl's own home |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Patient |
| 3 | **tundra** |  | the snowy owl |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **burrow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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