Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls, sentence 2

Some of it is stretched: an owl turns its head about three-quarters of the way round, not a full circle, and deer avoid frozen ponds because hard hooves slip on smooth ice.

Who acts: owl, deer, hard hooves · What happens: stretch, turn, avoid, freeze, slip · To what, where: Some, head, frozen ponds, smooth ice

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 (owl, deer, hard hooves), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 stretched	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Some	nmod
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stretched	aux:pass
5	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 stretched	punct
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 owl	det
8	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turns	nsubj
9	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stretched	parataxis
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 head	nmod:poss
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turns	obj
12	about	about	ADV	_	13 three	advmod
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 quarters	nummod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 three	punct
15	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 head	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 way	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 way	det
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 quarters	nmod
19	round	round	ADV	_	9 turns	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 circle	punct
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 circle	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 circle	det
23	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 circle	amod
24	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turns	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 avoid	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 avoid	cc
27	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 avoid	nsubj
28	avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 turns	conj
29	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 ponds	amod
30	ponds	pond	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 avoid	obj
31	because	because	SCONJ	_	34 slip	mark
32	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 hooves	amod
33	hooves	hoof	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 slip	nsubj
34	slip	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 avoid	advcl
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 ice	case
36	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 ice	amod
37	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 slip	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stretched	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stretch	present · passive		Some			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	turn	present	a owl	way's head three quarters of the way		round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme
3	avoid	present	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
5	slip	present	hard hooves		smooth ice		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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:2.

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 ×1, R8-pos-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.

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