--- title: A great grey owl can plunge through deep snow to grab a vole it has… — How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pell… · tree and pragmatics description: A great grey owl can plunge through deep snow to grab a vole it has only heard. Who acts: great grey owl, sound. 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 --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pellets and owl myths, sentence 9 A great grey owl can plunge through deep snow to grab a vole it has only heard. **Who acts:** great grey owl, sound · **What happens:** plunge, grab, hear · **To what, where:** deep snow, vole 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 (great grey owl, sound), 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:9 # text = A great grey owl can plunge through deep snow to grab 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 owl owl NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 plunge plunge VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 through through ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 grab grab VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 vole vole NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 only only ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 acl:relcl _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **plunge** | can | a great grey owl | | | deep snow | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through snow=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **grab** | to-infinitive | a great grey owl *not said here* | a vole | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vole=Theme | | 3 | **hear** | present · perfect | sound | 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. 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:9`. **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): no change. **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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