--- title: In many places owls were feared as signs of death, and in others the… — How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pell… · tree and pragmatics description: In many places owls were feared as signs of death, and in others they were lucky; really they call to keep their patch and find partners, and farmers put up owl boxes because owls eat lots of rats and mice. Who acts: others, farmers, 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 (others, farmers, 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:17 # text = In many places owls were feared as signs of death, and in others they were lucky; really they call to keep their patch and find partners, and farmers put up owl boxes because owls eat lots of rats and mice. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 4 owls owl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 feared fear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 signs sign NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 lucky lucky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 really really ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 patch patch NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 partners partner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 up up ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 34 owl owl NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 boxes box NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 36 because because SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 37 owls owl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 38 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 39 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 conj _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fear** | past · passive | | owls | | many places | | as signs of death | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | | 2 | **is** | past | others *= other* | | | others | | lucky *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **call** | present | others *= other* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **keep** | to-infinitive | others *= other* *not said here* | others's patch | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patch=Theme | | 5 | **find** | infinitive | others *= other* *not said here* | partners | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent partner=Topic | | 6 | **put up** | past | farmers | owl boxes | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent box=Goal | | 7 | **eat** | present | owls | lots of rats and mice | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient | | 8 | **sign** | | | death | | | | | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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:17`. **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, R8-pos-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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