--- title: Its wing feathers have comb-like front edges and soft fringes, so it… — How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pell… · tree and pragmatics description: Its wing feathers have comb-like front edges and soft fringes, so it glides past you in a barn without a whisper, and the mouse below hears nothing either. Who acts: wing feathers, machine, mouse. 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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 (wing feathers, machine, mouse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:302-how-owls-work-silent-wings-turning-heads-pellets-and-owl-myths.lesson:1 # text = Its wing feathers have comb-like front edges and soft fringes, so it glides past you in a barn without a whisper, and the mouse below hears nothing either. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 302-how-owls-work-silent-wings-turning-heads-pellets-and-owl-myths.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 wing wing NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 comb comb NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 like like ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 edges edge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 fringes fringe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 glides glide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 17 past past ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 barn barn NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 without without ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 whisper whisper NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 below below ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 hears hear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 31 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 30 obj _ _ 32 either either ADV RB PronType=Ind 30 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:advmod 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **have** | present | machine's wing feathers | comb like front edges and soft fringes | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent edge=Patient | | 2 | **glide** | present | machine | | | a barn | | past you; without a whisper | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme past you=Source in barn=Trajectory | | 3 | **hear** | present | the mouse | nothing | | | | either *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | 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:302-how-owls-work-silent-wings-turning-heads-pellets-and-owl-myths.lesson:1`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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