Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls, sentence 16

Hard deer hooves grip soil and snow but slip on smooth ice, so real deer avoid frozen ponds where they can.

Who acts: Hard deer hooves, real deer · What happens: grip, slip, avoid, freeze · To what, where: soil, smooth ice, frozen ponds

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 (Hard deer hooves, real deer), 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	Hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hooves	amod
2	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hooves	compound
3	hooves	hoove	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grip	nsubj
4	grip	grip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grip	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 snow	cc
7	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 soil	conj
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 slip	cc
9	slip	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 soil	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 ice	case
11	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ice	amod
12	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 slip	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 avoid	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	17 avoid	advmod
15	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 deer	amod
16	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 avoid	nsubj
17	avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 soil	conj
18	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 ponds	amod
19	ponds	pond	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 avoid	obj
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 can	advmod
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 can	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 ponds	acl:relcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grip	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	grip	present	Hard deer hooves	soil and snow		vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Experiencer
2	slip	present	Hard deer hooves not said here		smooth ice	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	avoid	present	real deer	frozen ponds		vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent pond=Location
4	freeze	participle				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:16.

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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.

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