--- title: Owl eyes are tube-shaped and fixed, so they cannot roll, and they ar… — How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pell… · tree and pragmatics description: Owl eyes are tube-shaped and fixed, so they cannot roll, and they are so big they fill much of the skull; owls see in light far too dim for us, but not in total darkness. Who acts: eyes, owls. 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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 (eyes, owls), 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:11 # text = Owl eyes are tube-shaped and fixed, so they cannot roll, and they are so big they fill much of the skull; owls see in light far too dim for us, but not in total darkness. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Owl owl NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 4 tube tube NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 6 shaped shape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 fixed fix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 roll roll VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advcl 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 fill fill VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 23 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 skull skull NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 owls owl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 32 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 34 advmod _ _ 33 too too ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 dim dim ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:ccomp 35 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 38 but but CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 39 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 42 advmod _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 total total ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 darkness darkness NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 parataxis _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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** | present · passive | | Owl eyes | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **fix** | participle | | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **not** **roll** | can | eyes *= eye* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | eyes *= eye* | | | | | big *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **fill** | present | eyes *= eye* | much | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent much=Patient | | 6 | **see** | present | owls | | | light | | dim *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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:11`. **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 ×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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