Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls, sentence 6

A mother deer hides her fawn for hours while she feeds nearby; the fawn has very little smell and stays still, and a fawn found alone should usually be left.

Who acts: mother deer, mother, fawn · What happens: hide, feed, have, stay, find, leave · To what, where: fawn, little 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 (mother deer, mother, fawn), 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	3 deer	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 deer	compound
3	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hides	nsubj
4	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 fawn	nmod:poss
6	fawn	fawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hides	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 hours	case
8	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hides	obl
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 feeds	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 feeds	nsubj
11	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hides	advcl
12	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	11 feeds	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 has	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fawn	det
15	fawn	fawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 has	nsubj
16	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hides	parataxis
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 little	advmod
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 smell	amod
19	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 has	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 stays	cc
21	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 has	conj
22	still	still	ADV	_	21 stays	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 left	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 left	cc
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 fawn	det
26	fawn	fawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 left	nsubj:pass
27	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 fawn	acl
28	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 found	advmod
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 left	aux
30	usually	usually	ADV	_	32 left	advmod
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 left	aux:pass
32	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hides	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hides	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	hide	present	a mother deer	mother's fawn	hour		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fawn=Patient
2	feed	present	mother			nearby property	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
3	have	present	the fawn	little smell			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Patient
4	stay	present	the fawn not said here		still		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	find	participle		a fawn not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	leave	should · passive		a fawn		usually property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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:6.

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): R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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