--- title: An owl can turn its head about 270 degrees, three quarters of a circ… — How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pell… · tree and pragmatics description: An owl can turn its head about 270 degrees, three quarters of a circle, but not all the way round; owls have 14 neck bones, twice as many as we have. Who acts: owl, owls, we. A sentence of the lesson «How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pellets and owl myths» of the biology course of Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/302-how-owls-work-silent-wings-turning-heads-pellets-and-owl-myths/10/) [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/) / [How owls work: silent wings, turning h…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/302-how-owls-work-silent-wings-turning-heads-pellets-and-owl-myths/) / 10 # How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pellets and owl myths, sentence 10 An owl can turn its head about 270 degrees, three quarters of a circle, but not all the way round; owls have 14 neck bones, twice as many as we have. **Who acts:** owl, owls, we · **What happens:** turn, have · **To what, where:** head, 14 neck bones This is a sentence of the lesson «How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pellets and owl myths» 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 (owl, owls, we), 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:10 # text = An owl can turn its head about 270 degrees, three quarters of a circle, but not all the way round; owls have 14 neck bones, twice as many as we have. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 owl owl NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 about about ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 8 270 270 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 degrees degree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 quarters quarter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 circle circle NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 21 det:predet _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 22 round round ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 owls owl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 26 14 14 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 27 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 32 advmod _ _ 31 as as ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 appos _ _ 33 as as SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | can | a owl | sound's head | | | | 270 degrees *obl* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 2 | **have** | present | owls | 14 neck bones | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient | | 3 | **have** | present | we | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:10`. **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, 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. 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