Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls, sentence 11

A skunk's bold black and white pattern makes predators notice and remember it; great horned owls, with a poor sense of smell, are among the few that eat skunks.

Who acts: bold black pattern, predators, great horned owls, skunk · What happens: make, notice, remember, be, eat, pattern · To what, where: skunk, skunks, smell

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 (bold black pattern, predators, great horned owls, skunk), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 skunk	det
2	skunk	skunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pattern	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 skunk	case
4	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pattern	amod
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pattern	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 white	cc
7	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 black	conj
8	pattern	pattern	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 makes	nsubj
9	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	predators	predator	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 notice	nsubj
11	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 makes	xcomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 remember	cc
13	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 notice	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 remember	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 few	punct
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 owls	amod
17	horned	horned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 owls	amod
18	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 few	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 owls	punct
20	with	with	ADP	_	23 sense	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 sense	det
22	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sense	amod
23	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 owls	nmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 smell	case
25	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sense	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 owls	punct
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 few	cop
28	among	among	ADP	_	30 few	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 few	det
30	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 makes	conj
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 eat	nsubj
32	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 few	acl:relcl
33	skunks	skunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 eat	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 makes	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present	a skunk's bold black pattern			tree rules
2	notice	infinitive	predators			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	remember	infinitive	predators not said here	skunk		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	is	present	great horned owls with a poor sense of smell		few property	tree rules
5	eat	present		skunks		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skunk=Patient
6	pattern		a skunk			nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent
7	sense			smell		nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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:11.

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): no change. 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.

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