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title: A barn owl's face funnels sound to ears set at different heights, so… — Birds of prey and owls · tree and pragmatics
description: A barn owl's face funnels sound to ears set at different heights, so it can find a mouse in total darkness by sound alone. Who acts: face. A sentence of the lesson «Birds of prey and owls» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Birds of prey and owls, sentence 10

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A barn owl's face funnels sound to ears set at different heights, so it can find a mouse in total darkness by sound alone.

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**Who acts:** face · **What happens:** funnel, set, find · **To what, where:** sound, ears, different heights, mouse, total darkness

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Birds of prey and owls» 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 (face), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:034-birds-of-prey-and-owls.lesson:10
# text = A barn owl's face funnels sound to ears set at different heights, so it can find a mouse in total darkness by sound alone.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 034-birds-of-prey-and-owls.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	barn	barn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	funnels	funnel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	heights	height	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nmod
26	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **funnel** | present | a barn owl's face | sound |  | ears |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent sound=Theme to ear=Trajectory |
| 2 | **set** | participle |  | ears *not said here* |  | different heights |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at height=Destination |
| 3 | **find** | can | face | a mouse |  | total darkness |  | by sound | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Topic |

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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.

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**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:034-birds-of-prey-and-owls.lesson:10`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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