--- title: Many owls hunt at dawn and dusk, and the little owl and short-eared… — How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pell… · tree and pragmatics description: Many owls hunt at dawn and dusk, and the little owl and short-eared owl often hunt by day; owls are not blinded by daylight, because their pupils shrink like ours. Who acts: Many owls, little owl, daylight, pupils. 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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 (Many owls, little owl, daylight, pupils), 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:18 # text = Many owls hunt at dawn and dusk, and the little owl and short-eared owl often hunt by day; owls are not blinded by daylight, because their pupils shrink like ours. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 owls owl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hunt hunt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 dawn dawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 dusk dusk NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 owl owl NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:parataxis 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:compound 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ _ 16 eared ear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 owl owl NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 18 often often ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 hunt hunt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 20 by by ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 23 owls owl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 blinded blind VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ _ 27 by by ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 daylight daylight NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 because because SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 31 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 pupils pupil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 shrink shrink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 34 like like ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 ours our PRON PRP Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hunt** | present | Many owls | | | | dawn | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **hunt** | present | the little owl and eared owl | | | | day | often *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **blind** | present · passive | daylight | owls | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **shrink** | present | others's pupils | | | | | like ours | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:18`. **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, 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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