Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls, sentence 8

White-tailed deer raise their white tails as they bound away, warning others and helping fawns follow; the book's Bambi was a European roe deer, the film's a white-tailed deer.

Who acts: tailed deer, deer, fawns, book, film · What happens: tail, raise, bound away, warn, help, follow · To what, where: white tails, others, European roe deer, tailed deer

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 (tailed deer, deer, fawns, book), 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	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tailed	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 White	punct
3	tailed	tail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 deer	amod
4	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 raise	nsubj
5	raise	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 tails	nmod:poss
7	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tails	amod
8	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 raise	obj
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 bound	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bound	nsubj
11	bound	bound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 raise	advcl
12	away	away	ADV	_	11 bound	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 warning	punct
14	warning	warn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 raise	conj
15	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 warning	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 helping	cc
17	helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 warning	conj
18	fawns	fawn	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 follow	nsubj
19	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 helping	xcomp
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 deer	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 book	det
22	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 deer	nsubj
23	's	's	PART	_	22 book	case
24	Bambi	Bambi	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 book	appos
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 deer	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 deer	det
27	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 deer	amod
28	roe	roe	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 deer	compound
29	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 raise	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 deer	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 film	det
32	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 deer	nsubj
33	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 deer	cop
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 deer	det
35	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 tailed	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 white	punct
37	tailed	tail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 deer	amod
38	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 deer	parataxis
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 raise	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tail	participle				vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	raise	present	tailed deer	deer's white tails		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme
3	bound away	present	deer		away property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	warn speech: warn	gerund	tailed deer not said here	others		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent other=Recipient
5	help	gerund	tailed deer not said here			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	follow	infinitive	fawns			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is a	past	the book	a European roe deer		tree rules
8	tail	participle				vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
9	is a	present	the film	a tailed deer		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:8.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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