--- title: Stories call owls wise, unlucky or ill when they fly by day, but the… — How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pell… · tree and pragmatics description: Stories call owls wise, unlucky or ill when they fly by day, but the real owl is simply a superb hunter. Who acts: Stories, real 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 a --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pellets and owl myths, sentence 6 Stories call owls wise, unlucky or ill when they fly by day, but the real owl is simply a superb hunter. **Who acts:** Stories, real owl · **What happens:** call, fly, be · **To what, where:** owls, superb hunter · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Stories, real 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:6 # text = Stories call owls wise, unlucky or ill when they fly by day, but the real owl is simply a superb hunter. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 owls owl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:amod 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 unlucky unlucky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 9 when when SCONJ WRB _ 11 mark _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 fly fly VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 12 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 owl owl NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 20 simply simply ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 superb superb ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 hunter hunter NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 24 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | present | Stories | owls | | | | wise *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent owl=Recipient | | 2 | **fly** | present | Stories *= story* | | | | day | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | the real owl | a superb hunter | | | | simply *property* | tree rules | 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:6`. **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, 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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