--- title: Think of an owl pellet on a classroom table: a ball of fur and tiny… — How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pell… · tree and pragmatics description: Think of an owl pellet on a classroom table: a ball of fur and tiny bones the owl coughed up, not poo. Who acts: you, owl. A sentence of the lesson «How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pellets and owl myths» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/302-how-owls-work-silent-wings-turning-heads-pellets-and-owl-myths/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [How owls work: silent wings, turning h…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/302-how-owls-work-silent-wings-turning-heads-pellets-and-owl-myths/) / 4 # How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pellets and owl myths, sentence 4 Think of an owl pellet on a classroom table: a ball of fur and tiny bones the owl coughed up, not poo. **Who acts:** you, owl · **What happens:** think, cough up · **To what, where:** poo This is a sentence of the lesson «How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pellets and owl myths» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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:4 # text = Think of an owl pellet on a classroom table: a ball of fur and tiny bones the owl coughed up, not poo. # 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 1 Think think VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 owl owl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 pellet pellet NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 classroom classroom NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 owl owl NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 coughed cough VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:acl 21 up up ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 poo poo NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | of a owl pellet on a classroom table | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **cough up** | past | the owl | poo | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=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:4`. **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. **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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