--- title: Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: In Bambi, a spotted fawn wobbles on thin legs, Thumper the rabbit thumps his foot, Flower the skunk blushes and Friend Owl spin --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and… # Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls Lesson 143 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 16 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls/0/) — In Bambi, a spotted fawn wobbles on thin legs, Thumper the rabbit thumps his foot, Flower the skunk blushes and Friend Owl spins his head all the way round. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls/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. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls/3/) — Imagine walking through long grass and finding a spotted fawn lying perfectly still. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls/4/) — It is not lost: its mother hid it there on purpose and is feeding nearby, so the kind thing is to leave it and walk away. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls/5/) — Fawns have white spots on a reddish-brown coat that look like sunlight on the forest floor, and they can stand within about an hour of birth. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls/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. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls/7/) — Antlers are bone and grow new every year; only male deer grow them, except reindeer, where females do too, and growing antlers are covered in soft velvet. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls/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. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls/9/) — Rabbits thump their back feet to warn others of danger, and the thump travels through the ground into burrows. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls/10/) — Real skunks are fairly calm and spray only as a last resort, after stamping, hissing and raising the tail; refilling the spray takes days. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls/11/) — A skunk's bold black and white pattern makes predators notice and remember it; great horned owls, with a poor sense of smell, are among the few that eat skunks. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls/12/) — Owls are mostly active at night and can turn their heads about 270 degrees, three-quarters of the way round, not a full circle. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls/13/) — Owl eyes are fixed like tubes, so owls turn their heads instead, using 14 neck bones, twice as many as our 7. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls/14/) — Deer often freeze in bright headlights: the sudden light dazzles eyes made for the dark, and freezing is their first answer to danger. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls/15/) — Forest fires drive animals out, but many forests recover; some pine cones open only in fire's heat, and deer feed on the fresh growth afterwards. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls/16/) — Hard deer hooves grip soil and snow but slip on smooth ice, so real deer avoid frozen ponds where they can. - ← previous: [Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/142-zootopia-real-sloths-shrews-predators-and-prey/) - next →: [Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)