--- title: There are about 250 kinds of owl, split into two families: the barn… — Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf ow… · tree and pragmatics description: There are about 250 kinds of owl, split into two families: the barn owls and the typical owls; owls live on every continent except Antarctica. Who acts: 250 kinds, owls. 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 p --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf owls and burrowing owls, sentence 6 There are about 250 kinds of owl, split into two families: the barn owls and the typical owls; owls live on every continent except Antarctica. **Who acts:** 250 kinds, owls · **What happens:** be about, split, live · **To what, where:** 250 kinds, two families, continent 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 (250 kinds, 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:6 # text = There are about 250 kinds of owl, split into two families: the barn owls and the typical owls; owls live on every continent except Antarctica. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 about about ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 250 250 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 owl owl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 split split VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 10 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 barn barn NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 owls owl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 appos _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 typical typical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 owls owl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 22 owls owl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 24 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 26 det _ _ 26 continent continent NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 except except ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Antarctica Antarctica PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be about** | present | 250 kinds of owl | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **split** | participle | | 250 kinds of owl *not said here* | | | | into two families *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into family=Result | | 3 | **live** | present | owls | | | every continent except Antarctica | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on continent=Location | 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:6`. **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 ×1, 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…, 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/) - next →: [Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle ow…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/301-owls-of-the-world-barn-owls-eagle-owls-elf-owls-and-burrowing-owls/7/) - ↑ 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/)