--- title: Deer often freeze in bright headlights: the sudden light dazzles eye… — Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls · tree and pragmatics description: Deer often freeze in bright headlights: the sudden light dazzles eyes made for the dark, and freezing is their first answer to danger. Who acts: Deer, freezing. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Deer, freezing), 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:14 # text = Deer often freeze in bright headlights: the sudden light dazzles eyes made for the dark, and freezing is their first answer to danger. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 Deer deer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 often often ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 freeze freeze VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 headlights headlight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 sudden sudden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:amod 10 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 dazzles dazzle VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 12 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 freezing freezing NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 23 amod _ _ 23 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **freeze** | present | Deer | | | bright headlights | | often *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **dazzle** | present | | eyes | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eye=Experiencer | | 3 | **make** | participle | | eyes *not said here* | | | | for the dark | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for dark=Asset | | 4 | **is a** | present | freezing | eyes's first answer | | | | to danger | 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](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. 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