--- title: Owls fly almost silently thanks to soft fringed feather edges, and a… — Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show · tree and pragmatics description: Owls fly almost silently thanks to soft fringed feather edges, and an owl can turn its head about three quarters of the way round, but not a full circle; most owls hunt at night, and no owl can be trained to carry letters. Who acts: Owls, owl, most owls. 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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 (Owls, owl, most owls), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:094-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show.lesson:12 # text = Owls fly almost silently thanks to soft fringed feather edges, and an owl can turn its head about three quarters of the way round, but not a full circle; most owls hunt at night, and no owl can be trained to carry letters. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 094-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Owls owl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 fly fly VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 almost almost ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 silently silently ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 5 thanks thanks NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 discourse _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 8 fringed fringe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 amod _ _ 9 feather feather NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 edges edge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 owl owl NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 about about ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 20 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 quarters quarter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 round round ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 circle circle NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 33 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 34 amod _ _ 34 owls owl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 hunt hunt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 36 at at ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=35:cc 40 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 41 det _ _ 41 owl owl NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj:pass _ _ 42 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 43 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 44 aux:pass _ _ 44 trained train VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 conj _ _ 45 to to PART TO _ 46 mark _ _ 46 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=44:xcomp 47 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obj _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly** | present | Owls | | | | | silently *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **fringe** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **turn** | can | a owl | owl's head | | | | three quarters of the way but a full circle *obl* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 4 | **hunt** | present | most owls | | | | night | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **train** | can · passive | | no owl | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 6 | **carry** | to-infinitive | | letters | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme | 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:094-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show.lesson:12`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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. 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