--- title: Owls are the night shift: soft fringed feathers make their flight si… — Birds of prey and owls · tree and pragmatics description: Owls are the night shift: soft fringed feathers make their flight silent, and the heart-shaped face of a barn owl is a dish that funnels sound into its ears. Who acts: Owls, soft fringed feathers, shaped face, dish. 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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 (Owls, soft fringed feathers, shaped face, dish), 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:2 # text = Owls are the night shift: soft fringed feathers make their flight silent, and the heart-shaped face of a barn owl is a dish that funnels sound into its ears. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Owls owl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 shift shift NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 7 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 fringed fringe ADJ JJ _ 9 amod _ _ 9 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 flight flight NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 17 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 19 shaped shape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 20 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 barn barn NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 owl owl NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 dish dish NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 28 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 29 funnels funnel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 31 into into ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Owls | the night shift | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | present | soft fringed feathers | feathers's flight | | | | silent *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset flight=Product | | 3 | **shape** | participle | | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 4 | **is a** | present | the shaped face of a barn owl | a dish | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **funnel** | present | a dish | sound | | face's ears | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sound=Theme into ear=Destination | 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:034-birds-of-prey-and-owls.lesson:2`. **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): R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Birds of prey and owls, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/34-birds-of-prey-and-owls/1/) - next →: [Birds of prey and owls, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/34-birds-of-prey-and-owls/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/34-birds-of-prey-and-owls/)