--- title: An owl can turn its head about 270 degrees, three quarters of a circ… — Birds of prey and owls · tree and pragmatics description: An owl can turn its head about 270 degrees, three quarters of a circle, because its eyes are fixed tubes that cannot roll; it has 14 neck bones. Who acts: owl, eyes, fixed tubes, surface. 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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 (owl, eyes, fixed tubes, 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:9 # text = An owl can turn its head about 270 degrees, three quarters of a circle, because its eyes are fixed tubes that cannot roll; it has 14 neck bones. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 owl owl NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 about about ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 8 270 270 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 degrees degree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 quarters quarter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nmod:unmarked 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 circle circle NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 17 because because SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 fixed fix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 22 tubes tube NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 advcl _ _ 23 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 roll roll VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 acl:relcl _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 30 14 14 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 31 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | can | a owl | surface's head | | | | 270 degrees *obl* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 2 | **fix** | participle | | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **is a** | present | surface's eyes | fixed tubes | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **roll** | can | fixed tubes | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **have** | present | surface | 14 neck bones | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient | 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:9`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/34-birds-of-prey-and-owls/8/) - next →: [Birds of prey and owls, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/34-birds-of-prey-and-owls/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/34-birds-of-prey-and-owls/)