--- title: Real skunks are fairly calm and spray only as a last resort, after s… — Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls · tree and pragmatics description: Real skunks are fairly calm and spray only as a last resort, after stamping, hissing and raising the tail; refilling the spray takes days. Who acts: Real skunks, refilling. A sentence of the lesson «Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its d --- [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/10/) [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…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls/) / 10 # Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls, sentence 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. **Who acts:** Real skunks, refilling · **What happens:** be, spray, stamp, hiss, raise, refill · **To what, where:** tail, spray 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 (Real skunks, refilling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls.lesson:10 # text = Real skunks are fairly calm and spray only as a last resort, after stamping, hissing and raising the tail; refilling the spray takes days. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×1 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 skunks skunk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 fairly fairly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 spray spray VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 8 only only ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 9 as as ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 resort resort NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 after after SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 15 stamping stamp VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 hissing hiss VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 conj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 raising raise VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=17:conj 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 23 refilling refill VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 csubj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 spray spray NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 27 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Real skunks | | | | | calm, fairly *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **spray** | present | Real skunks *not said here* | | | | | as a last resort | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **stamp** | gerund | Real skunks *not said here* | | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **hiss** | gerund | Real skunks *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **raise** | gerund | Real skunks *not said here* | the tail | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme | | 6 | **refill** | gerund | | the spray | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **take** | present | refilling | | | | day | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:10`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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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