--- title: Some of it is stretched: an owl turns its head about three-quarters… — Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: owl, deer, hard hooves. 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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 (owl, deer, hard hooves), 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:2 # text = 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. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 5 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 nmod _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 stretched stretch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 7 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 owl owl NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 about about ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 13 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 15 quarters quarter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 round round ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 circle circle NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 ccomp _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 deer deer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 avoid avoid VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 29 frozen freeze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 30 ponds pond NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 31 because because SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 hooves hoof NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 slip slip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 smooth smooth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stretch** | present · passive | | Some | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **turn** | present | a owl | way's head three quarters of the way | | | | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 3 | **avoid** | present | 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 | | 5 | **slip** | present | hard hooves | | | smooth ice | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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:2`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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