--- title: Owls are skilled hunters but not especially good at puzzles; crows a… — How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pell… · tree and pragmatics description: Owls are skilled hunters but not especially good at puzzles; crows and parrots do much better. Who acts: Owls. 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 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev --- [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/15/) [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/) / 15 # How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pellets and owl myths, sentence 15 Owls are skilled hunters but not especially good at puzzles; crows and parrots do much better. **Who acts:** Owls · **What happens:** be, not be · **To what, where:** skilled hunters, puzzles 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 (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:15 # text = Owls are skilled hunters but not especially good at puzzles; crows and parrots do much better. # 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 1 Owls owl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 skilled skilled ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 hunters hunter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 but but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 7 especially especially ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 puzzles puzzle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 12 crows crow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 parrots parrot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj 15 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 much much ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 parataxis _ _ 18 . . 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 | **is a** | present | Owls | skilled hunters | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **be** | | Owls *not said here* | | | puzzles | | especially *property* | tree rules | 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:15`. **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. **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: [How owls work: silent wings, turning h…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/302-how-owls-work-silent-wings-turning-heads-pellets-and-owl-myths/13/) - next →: [How owls work: silent wings, turning h…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/302-how-owls-work-silent-wings-turning-heads-pellets-and-owl-myths/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/302-how-owls-work-silent-wings-turning-heads-pellets-and-owl-myths/)