---
title: Barn owls have soft fringed edges on their feathers that make their… — How animals hunt · tree and pragmatics
description: Barn owls have soft fringed edges on their feathers that make their flight almost silent, and their ears sit at different heights, so a sound reaches each ear a little differently and they can tell up from down and find a mouse by sound alone. Who acts: Barn owls, feathers, ears, sound. A sentence o
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/52-how-animals-hunt/7/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [How animals hunt](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/52-how-animals-hunt/) / 7

# How animals hunt, sentence 7

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Barn owls have soft fringed edges on their feathers that make their flight almost silent, and their ears sit at different heights, so a sound reaches each ear a little differently and they can tell up from down and find a mouse by sound alone.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Barn owls, feathers, ears, sound · **What happens:** have, fringe, make, sit, reach, tell up · **To what, where:** soft fringed edges, feathers, flight, different heights, ear, mouse

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «How animals hunt» 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 (Barn owls, feathers, ears, sound), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:052-how-animals-hunt.lesson:7
# text = Barn owls have soft fringed edges on their feathers that make their flight almost silent, and their ears sit at different heights, so a sound reaches each ear a little differently and they can tell up from down and find a mouse by sound alone.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 052-how-animals-hunt.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Barn	barn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	owls	owl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	fringed	fringe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	edges	edge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	heights	height	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	reaches	reach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
29	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:advmod
33	differently	differently	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:advmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj
38	up	up	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	_
39	from	from	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	down	down	ADV	RB	_	37	obl	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	conj	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	by	by	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
47	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Barn owls | soft fringed edges |  | owls's feathers |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent edge=Patient |
| 2 | **fringe** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | present | owls's feathers | owls's flight |  |  |  | silent *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset flight=Product |
| 4 | **sit** | present | owls's ears |  |  | different heights |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at height=Location |
| 5 | **reach** | present | a sound | each ear |  |  |  | differently *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=Theme |
| 6 | **tell up** *speech: assert* | can | ears *= ear* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **find** | infinitive | ears *= ear* *not said here* | a mouse |  |  |  | by sound | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Topic |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:052-how-animals-hunt.lesson:7`.

**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 ×3, 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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [How animals hunt, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/52-how-animals-hunt/6/)
- next →: [How animals hunt, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/52-how-animals-hunt/8/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/52-how-animals-hunt/)