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title: Hard deer hooves grip soil and snow but slip on smooth ice, so real… — Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls · tree and pragmatics
description: Hard deer hooves grip soil and snow but slip on smooth ice, so real deer avoid frozen ponds where they can. Who acts: Hard deer hooves, real deer. A sentence of the lesson «Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls, sentence 16

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Hard deer hooves grip soil and snow but slip on smooth ice, so real deer avoid frozen ponds where they can.

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**Who acts:** Hard deer hooves, real deer · **What happens:** grip, slip, avoid, freeze · **To what, where:** soil, smooth ice, frozen ponds

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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 (Hard deer hooves, real deer), 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:16
# text = Hard deer hooves grip soil and snow but slip on smooth ice, so real deer avoid frozen ponds where they can.
# 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:amod
2	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	hooves	hoove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound
4	grip	grip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	slip	slip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	avoid	avoid	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
19	ponds	pond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grip** | present | Hard deer hooves | soil and snow |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Experiencer |
| 2 | **slip** | present | Hard deer hooves *not said here* |  |  | smooth ice |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **avoid** | present | real deer | frozen ponds |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent pond=Location |
| 4 | **freeze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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**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:16`.

**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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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