--- title: A tawny owl sleeps by day in streaky brown feathers that match bark;… — How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry · tree and pragmatics description: A tawny owl sleeps by day in streaky brown feathers that match bark; if small birds or crows find it, they mob it with loud alarm calls. Who acts: tawny owl, streaky brown feathers, small birds, birds. 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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 (tawny owl, streaky brown feathers, small birds, birds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:051-how-animals-hide.lesson:15 # text = A tawny owl sleeps by day in streaky brown feathers that match bark; if small birds or crows find it, they mob it with loud alarm calls. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 051-how-animals-hide.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 tawny tawny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 owl owl NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 sleeps sleep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 5 by by ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 streaky streaky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 match match VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 bark bark NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 15 if if SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 16 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 crows crow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 20 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 mob mob VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 alarm alarm NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 calls call NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sleep** | present | a tawny owl | | | streaky brown feathers | day | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in feather=Location | | 2 | **match** | present | streaky brown feathers | bark | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bark=Patient | | 3 | **find** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | small birds or crows | bark | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 4 | **mob** | present | birds *= bird* | bark | | | | with loud alarm calls | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with call=Instrument | 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:051-how-animals-hide.lesson:15`. **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): R6-punct-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: [How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/51-how-animals-hide/14/) - next →: [How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/51-how-animals-hide/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/51-how-animals-hide/)