--- title: Most owls hunt at night, and barn owls have heart-shaped faces. — Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report · tree and pragmatics description: Most owls hunt at night, and barn owls have heart-shaped faces. Who acts: Most owls, barn 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/32/) [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/) / 32 # Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report, sentence 32 Most owls hunt at night, and barn owls have heart-shaped faces. **Who acts:** Most owls, barn owls · **What happens:** hunt, have, shape · **To what, where:** shaped faces 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 (Most owls, barn 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:32 # text = Most owls hunt at night, and barn owls have heart-shaped faces. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 owls owl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hunt hunt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 barn barn NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 owls owl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 13 shaped shape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 14 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hunt** | present | Most owls | | | | night | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **have** | present | barn owls | shaped faces | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient | | 3 | **shape** | participle | | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | 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:32`. **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): 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: [Reading non-fiction: recount, instruct…, 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/23-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report/31/) - next →: [Reading non-fiction: recount, instruct…, 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/23-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report/33/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/23-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report/)