Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls, sentence 10

Real skunks are fairly calm and spray only as a last resort, after stamping, hissing and raising the tail; refilling the spray takes days.

Who acts: Real skunks, refilling · What happens: be, spray, stamp, hiss, raise, refill · To what, where: tail, spray

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls» 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 (Real skunks, refilling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 skunks	amod
2	skunks	skunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 calm	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 calm	cop
4	fairly	fairly	ADV	_	5 calm	advmod
5	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 spray	cc
7	spray	spray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 calm	conj
8	only	only	ADV	_	12 resort	advmod
9	as	as	ADP	_	12 resort	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 resort	det
11	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 resort	amod
12	resort	resort	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spray	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stamping	punct
14	after	after	SCONJ	_	15 stamping	mark
15	stamping	stamp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 spray	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hissing	punct
17	hissing	hiss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 stamping	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 raising	cc
19	raising	raise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 stamping	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tail	det
21	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 raising	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 takes	punct
23	refilling	refill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 takes	csubj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 spray	det
25	spray	spray	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 refilling	obj
26	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 calm	parataxis
27	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 takes	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 calm	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Real skunks			calm, fairly property	tree rules
2	spray	present	Real skunks not said here			as a last resort	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
3	stamp	gerund	Real skunks not said here				vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hiss	gerund	Real skunks not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	raise	gerund	Real skunks not said here	the tail			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme
6	refill	gerund		the spray			tree rules
7	take	present	refilling		day		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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, 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:143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls.lesson:10.

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): R3-conj-first ×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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