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title: The wise owl idea comes from ancient Greece, where the owl was the b… — Birds of prey and owls · tree and pragmatics
description: The wise owl idea comes from ancient Greece, where the owl was the bird of Athena, goddess of wisdom; in puzzle tests crows and parrots do much better. Who acts: wise owl idea, owl. A sentence of the lesson «Birds of prey and owls» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t
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# Birds of prey and owls, sentence 16

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The wise owl idea comes from ancient Greece, where the owl was the bird of Athena, goddess of wisdom; in puzzle tests crows and parrots do much better.

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**Who acts:** wise owl idea, owl · **What happens:** come, be · **To what, where:** ancient Greece, bird

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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 (wise owl idea, owl), 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:16
# text = The wise owl idea comes from ancient Greece, where the owl was the bird of Athena, goddess of wisdom; in puzzle tests crows and parrots do much better.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:appos
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Athena	Athena	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	goddess	goddess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	tests	test	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:obl
26	crows	crow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:nsubj
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	parrots	parrot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
29	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	much	much	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	conj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | the wise owl idea |  |  | ancient Greece |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from greece=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the owl | the bird |  |  |  | of Athena | tree rules |

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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:16`.

**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, 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.

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

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