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title: A mother deer hides her fawn for hours while she feeds nearby; the f… — Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls · tree and pragmatics
description: A mother deer hides her fawn for hours while she feeds nearby; the fawn has very little smell and stays still, and a fawn found alone should usually be left. Who acts: mother deer, mother, fawn. A sentence of the lesson «Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls» of the biology course of Mova's pri
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# Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls, sentence 6

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A mother deer hides her fawn for hours while she feeds nearby; the fawn has very little smell and stays still, and a fawn found alone should usually be left.

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**Who acts:** mother deer, mother, fawn · **What happens:** hide, feed, have, stay, find, leave · **To what, where:** fawn, little 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 (mother deer, mother, fawn), 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:6
# text = A mother deer hides her fawn for hours while she feeds nearby; the fawn has very little smell and stays still, and a fawn found alone should usually be left.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×3
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hides	hide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	fawn	fawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	feeds	feed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
12	nearby	nearby	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fawn	fawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	still	still	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	fawn	fawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:xcomp
29	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
30	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | present | a mother deer | mother's fawn |  |  | hour |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fawn=Patient |
| 2 | **feed** | present | mother |  |  |  |  | nearby *property* | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | present | the fawn | little smell |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Patient |
| 4 | **stay** | present | the fawn *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **find** | participle |  | a fawn *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **leave** | should · passive |  | a fawn |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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