--- title: In many owls the two ears sit at different heights, so a sound reach… — How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pell… · tree and pragmatics description: In many owls the two ears sit at different heights, so a sound reaches each ear at a slightly different time and loudness and the owl can tell up from down as well as left from right. Who acts: two ears, sound, 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 (two ears, sound, 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:8 # text = In many owls the two ears sit at different heights, so a sound reaches each ear at a slightly different time and loudness and the owl can tell up from down as well as left from right. # 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 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 owls owl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 sit sit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 heights height NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 reaches reach VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 16 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 17 det _ _ 17 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 slightly slightly ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 loudness loudness NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 owl owl NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 28 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 30 up up ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 down down ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 33 as as ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 32 advmod _ _ 35 as as SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 36 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 advcl _ _ 37 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | present | the two ears | | | many owls | | at different heights | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in owl=Location | | 2 | **reach** | present | a sound | each ear | | | time | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=Theme | | 3 | **tell up** *speech: assert* | can | the owl | | | | | down *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **leave** | participle | the owl *not said here* | | | right | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from right=Initial\_Location | 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:8`. **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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