--- title: Owls can turn their heads about 270 degrees, three-quarters of a cir… — Wild animals and tall tales · tree and pragmatics description: Owls can turn their heads about 270 degrees, three-quarters of a circle, and special blood vessels let them do it safely. Who acts: Owls, special blood vessels, camels. 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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, special blood vessels, camels), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:008-wild-animals-and-tall-tales.lesson:12 # text = Owls can turn their heads about 270 degrees, three-quarters of a circle, and special blood vessels let them do it safely. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 008-wild-animals-and-tall-tales.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Owls owl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 about about ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 7 270 270 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 degrees degree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ _ 12 quarters quarter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 circle circle NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 vessels vessel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 safely safely ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | can | Owls | camels's heads | | | | 270 degrees *obl* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 2 | **let** | infinitive | special blood vessels | camels *= camel* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **do** | infinitive | camels *= camel* *not said here* | head | | | | safely *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | 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:myths:008-wild-animals-and-tall-tales.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Wild animals and tall tales, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/8-wild-animals-and-tall-tales/11/) - next →: [Wild animals and tall tales, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/8-wild-animals-and-tall-tales/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/8-wild-animals-and-tall-tales/)