--- title: The wise-owl idea comes partly from ancient Athens, where the little… — How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pell… · tree and pragmatics description: The wise-owl idea comes partly from ancient Athens, where the little owl was the bird of Athena, goddess of wisdom, and appeared on silver coins. Who acts: owl idea, little owl. 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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 (owl idea, little owl), 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:16 # text = The wise-owl idea comes partly from ancient Athens, where the little owl was the bird of Athena, goddess of wisdom, and appeared on silver coins. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 owl owl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 partly partly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 ancient ancient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 Athens Athens PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl 11 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 12 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 18 advmod _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 owl owl NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 acl:relcl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Athena Athena PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 goddess goddess NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:conj 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 wisdom wisdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc 27 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 coins coin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 31 . . 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 | **come** | present | the owl idea | | | ancient Athens | | partly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from athens=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **is a** | past | the little owl | the bird | | | | of Athena | tree rules | | 3 | **appear** | past | the owl idea *not said here* | | | silver coins | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on coin=Location | 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:16`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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. 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