--- title: Most owls get nearly all their water from their prey, because the bo… — How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pell… · tree and pragmatics description: Most owls get nearly all their water from their prey, because the bodies of mice and voles are mostly water, though they do sometimes drink and bathe in hot weather. Who acts: Most owls, bodies. 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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 (Most owls, bodies), 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:20 # text = Most owls get nearly all their water from their prey, because the bodies of mice and voles are mostly water, though they do sometimes drink and bathe in hot weather. # 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): no change 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 owls owl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 all all DET PDT _ 7 det:predet _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 12 because because SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 bodies body NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 voles vole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 19 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 advcl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 though though SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 27 advmod _ _ 27 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 bathe bathe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **get** | present | Most owls | places's water | | places's prey | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Theme from prey=Source | | 2 | **is a** | present | the bodies of mice and voles | water | | | | mostly *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **drink** | present · do-support | bodies *= body* | | | | | sometimes *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **bathe** | infinitive | bodies *= body* *not said here* | | | | | in hot weather | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in weather=Theme | 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:20`. **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): no change. **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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