--- title: «Barn owls have heart-shaped faces» is a fact; «owls are the best bi… — Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report · tree and pragmatics description: «Barn owls have heart-shaped faces» is a fact; «owls are the best birds» is an opinion. Who acts: Barn owls, owls. A sentence of the lesson «Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/23-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report/19/) [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/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Reading non-fiction: recount, instruct…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/23-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report/) / 19 # Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report, sentence 19 «Barn owls have heart-shaped faces» is a fact; «owls are the best birds» is an opinion. **Who acts:** Barn owls, owls · **What happens:** have, shape, be · **To what, where:** heart shaped faces, fact, best birds, opinion · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report» of the english 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, owls), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:023-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report.lesson:19 # text = «Barn owls have heart-shaped faces» is a fact; «owls are the best birds» is an opinion. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 023-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 Barn barn NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 owls owl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 csubj _ _ 5 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 shaped shape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 8 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 9 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 fact fact NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=12:punct 14 « « PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 15 owls owl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 19 amod _ _ 19 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 csubj _ _ 20 » » PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 opinion opinion NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj 24 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Barn owls | heart shaped faces | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient | | 2 | **shape** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **is a** | present | | a fact | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | owls | the best birds | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | | a opinion | | | | | tree rules | 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:english:023-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report.lesson:19`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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