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title: Owl wing feathers have comb-like front edges, soft fringes and a vel… — Birds of prey and owls · tree and pragmatics
description: Owl wing feathers have comb-like front edges, soft fringes and a velvety surface that muffle the sound of flying. Who acts: wing feathers, velvety surface. 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 
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# Birds of prey and owls, sentence 8

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Owl wing feathers have comb-like front edges, soft fringes and a velvety surface that muffle the sound of flying.

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**Who acts:** wing feathers, velvety surface · **What happens:** have, muffle · **To what, where:** like front edges, sound

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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 (wing feathers, velvety surface), 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:8
# text = Owl wing feathers have comb-like front edges, soft fringes and a velvety surface that muffle the sound of flying.
# 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	Owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	comb	comb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	edges	edge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	fringes	fringe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	velvety	velvety	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	muffle	muffle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	flying	flying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:nmod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | wing feathers | like front edges and soft fringes and a velvety surface |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent edge=Patient |
| 2 | **muffle** | present | a velvety surface | the sound of flying |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient |

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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:8`.

**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/).

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