--- title: Pull it apart with tweezers and you can count the skulls of the mice… — How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pell… · tree and pragmatics description: Pull it apart with tweezers and you can count the skulls of the mice and voles it ate. 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 pragmatics of every --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pellets and owl myths, sentence 5 Pull it apart with tweezers and you can count the skulls of the mice and voles it ate. **Who acts:** you, owl · **What happens:** pull, count, eat · **To what, where:** owl, skulls, mice 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:5 # text = Pull it apart with tweezers and you can count the skulls of the mice and voles it ate. # 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 1 Pull pull VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 apart apart ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 tweezers tweezer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 count count VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 skulls skull NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 voles vole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:acl:relcl 19 . . 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 | **pull** | imperative | you *not said here* | owl | | | | with tweezers; apart *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 2 | **count** | can | you | the skulls of the mice and voles | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skull=Theme | | 3 | **eat** | past | owl | the mice and voles *not said here* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=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:5`. **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. **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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