--- title: Barn owls do not hoot; they give a long hissing shriek, and white ow… — Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf ow… · tree and pragmatics description: Barn owls do not hoot; they give a long hissing shriek, and white owls shrieking from church towers at night gave rise to many ghost stories. Who acts: Barn owls, kinds, white owls. A sentence of the lesson «Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf owls and burrowing owls» of the biology course --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf owls and burrowing owls, sentence 8 Barn owls do not hoot; they give a long hissing shriek, and white owls shrieking from church towers at night gave rise to many ghost stories. **Who acts:** Barn owls, kinds, white owls · **What happens:** not hoot, give, shriek · **To what, where:** long hissing shriek, church towers, rise, many ghost stories 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 (Barn owls, kinds, white 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:8 # text = Barn owls do not hoot; they give a long hissing shriek, and white owls shrieking from church towers at night gave rise to many ghost stories. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Barn barn NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 owls owl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 hoot hoot VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 hissing hissing NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 shriek shriek NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 owls owl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 17 shrieking shriek VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 acl _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 towers tower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj 24 rise rise NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 27 ghost ghost NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nmod 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **hoot** | present · do-support | Barn owls | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **give** | present | kinds *= kind* | a long hissing shriek | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shriek=Theme | | 3 | **shriek** | gerund | white owls *not said here* | | | church towers | night | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **give** | past | white owls | rise | many ghost stories | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent rise=Theme to story=Recipient | 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:8`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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…, 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/) - next →: [Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle ow…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/301-owls-of-the-world-barn-owls-eagle-owls-elf-owls-and-burrowing-owls/9/) - ↑ 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/)