--- title: Its ears are often set at different heights, so it can tell where a… — How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pell… · tree and pragmatics description: Its ears are often set at different heights, so it can tell where a squeak comes from both left and right and up and down, and a great grey owl can dive through deep snow onto a vole it has only heard. Who acts: machine, squeak, great grey owl, 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 (machine, squeak, great grey owl, 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:3 # text = Its ears are often set at different heights, so it can tell where a squeak comes from both left and right and up and down, and a great grey owl can dive through deep snow onto a vole it has only heard. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 4 often often ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 heights height NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 14 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 17 advmod _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 squeak squeak NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 both both CCONJ CC _ 20 cc:preconj _ _ 20 left left ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 up up ADV RB _ 20 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 down down ADV RB _ 24 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 31 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 32 owl owl NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 33 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 dive dive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 35 through through ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 onto onto ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 vole vole NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 42 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 43 only only ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 40 acl:relcl _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **set** | present · passive | | machine's ears | | different heights | | often *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at height=Destination | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | machine | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **come** | present | a squeak | | | left | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from left=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **dive** | can | a great grey owl | | | deep snow | | onto a vole | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through snow=Location | | 5 | **hear** | present · perfect | owl | a vole *not said here* | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer vole=Stimulus | 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. 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