--- title: A barn owl's heart-shaped face works like a satellite dish, gatherin… — Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf ow… · tree and pragmatics description: A barn owl's heart-shaped face works like a satellite dish, gathering sound towards its ears; barn owls hunt mostly by ear, and in experiments they caught mice in total darkness. Who acts: heart shaped face, barn owls, kinds. 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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 (heart shaped face, barn owls, kinds), 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:7 # text = A barn owl's heart-shaped face works like a satellite dish, gathering sound towards its ears; barn owls hunt mostly by ear, and in experiments they caught mice in total darkness. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 barn barn NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 owl owl NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 shaped shape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 8 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 like like ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 satellite satellite NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 dish dish NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 gathering gather VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 amod _ _ 16 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 17 towards towards ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 21 barn barn NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 owls owl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 hunt hunt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 24 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 by by ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 experiments experiment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 33 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 total total ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 darkness darkness NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shape** | participle | | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 2 | **work** | present | a barn owl's heart shaped face | | | | | like a satellite dish | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **gather** | gerund | | | | | | | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **hunt** | present | barn owls | | | | | by ear; mostly *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent by ear=Location | | 5 | **catch** | past | kinds *= kind* | mice | | experiments | | in total darkness | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | 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:7`. **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): R7-rel-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. 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