--- title: Pictures get them wrong: an owl cannot turn its head all the way rou… — Birds of prey and owls · tree and pragmatics description: Pictures get them wrong: an owl cannot turn its head all the way round, owls are not the cleverest birds, and a bald eagle is not bald at all. Who acts: Pictures, owl, owls, bald eagle. 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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 (Pictures, owl, owls, bald eagle), 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:4 # text = Pictures get them wrong: an owl cannot turn its head all the way round, owls are not the cleverest birds, and a bald eagle is not bald at all. # 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 Pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 6 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 owl owl NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 15 det:predet _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl 16 round round ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advmod 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 owls owl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 19 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 cleverest clever ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 23 amod _ _ 23 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 bald bald ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 bald bald ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 32 at at ADP IN _ 33 fixed _ _ 33 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 31 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:advmod 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | present | Pictures | Owls *= owl* | | | | wrong *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | | 2 | **not** **turn** | can | a owl | pellet's head | | | | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 3 | **not** **is a** | present | owls | the cleverest birds | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **is** | present | a bald eagle | | | | | all *obl*; bald *property* | tree rules | 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:4`. **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/). - ← previous: [Birds of prey and owls, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/34-birds-of-prey-and-owls/3/) - next →: [Birds of prey and owls, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/34-birds-of-prey-and-owls/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/34-birds-of-prey-and-owls/)