Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls, sentence 14

Deer often freeze in bright headlights: the sudden light dazzles eyes made for the dark, and freezing is their first answer to danger.

Who acts: Deer, freezing · What happens: freeze, dazzle, make, be · To what, where: bright headlights, eyes, first answer

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 (Deer, freezing), 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	Deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 freeze	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 freeze	advmod
3	freeze	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 headlights	case
5	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 headlights	amod
6	headlights	headlight	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 freeze	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 eyes	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dazzles	det
9	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 light	amod
10	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dazzles	compound
11	dazzles	dazzle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 freeze	parataxis
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 dazzles	obj
13	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 eyes	acl
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 dark	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 dark	det
16	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 made	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 answer	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 answer	cc
19	freezing	freezing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 answer	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 answer	cop
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 answer	nmod:poss
22	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	23 answer	amod
23	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 freeze	obl
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 danger	case
25	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 answer	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 freeze	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	freeze	present	Deer		bright headlights	often property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	dazzle	present		eyes			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eye=Experiencer
3	make	participle		eyes not said here		for the dark	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for dark=Asset
4	is a	present	freezing	eyes's first answer		to danger	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, 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:14.

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. 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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