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title: A skunk's bold black and white pattern makes predators notice and re… — Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: bold black pattern, predators, great horned owls, skunk. A sentence of the lesson «Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls» of
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# Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls, sentence 11

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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.

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**Who acts:** bold black pattern, predators, great horned owls, skunk · **What happens:** make, notice, remember, be, eat, pattern · **To what, where:** skunk, skunks, smell

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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 (bold black pattern, predators, great horned owls, skunk), 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:11
# text = 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.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	skunk	skunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	bold	bold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
5	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	pattern	pattern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	predators	predator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	horned	horned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	owls	owl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	among	among	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	skunks	skunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | a skunk's bold black pattern |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **notice** | infinitive | predators |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **remember** | infinitive | predators *not said here* | skunk |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | great horned owls with a poor sense of smell |  |  |  |  | few *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **eat** | present |  | skunks |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skunk=Patient |
| 6 | **pattern** |  | a skunk |  |  |  |  |  | nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **sense** |  |  | smell |  |  |  |  | nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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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