Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls, sentence 9
Rabbits thump their back feet to warn others of danger, and the thump travels through the ground into burrows.
Who acts: Rabbits, thump · What happens: thump, warn, travel · To what, where: back feet, others, ground
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 (Rabbits, thump), 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 | Rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 thump | nsubj |
| 2 | thump | thump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 feet | nmod:poss |
| 4 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feet | compound |
| 5 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 thump | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 warn | mark |
| 7 | warn | warn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 thump | advcl |
| 8 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 warn | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 danger | case |
| 10 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 others | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 travels | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 travels | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 thump | det |
| 14 | thump | thump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 travels | nsubj |
| 15 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 thump | conj |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 ground | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ground | det |
| 18 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 travels | obl |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 burrows | case |
| 20 | burrows | burrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 travels | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thump | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thump | present | Rabbits | deer's back feet | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient | ||||
| 2 | warn speech: warn | to-infinitive | Rabbits not said here | others of danger | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent other=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | travel | present | the thump | the ground | into burrows | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into burrow=Destination |
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:9.
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): no change. 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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