--- title: The skunk does not attack without warning: it stamps, raises its tai… — Raccoons, opossums and skunks · tree and pragmatics description: The skunk does not attack without warning: it stamps, raises its tail and only then sprays a liquid so smelly that a dog will remember it for life. Who acts: skunk, dog. 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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 (skunk, dog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks.lesson:3 # text = The skunk does not attack without warning: it stamps, raises its tail and only then sprays a liquid so smelly that a dog will remember it for life. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks.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 ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 skunk skunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 attack attack VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 without without ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 warning warning NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 stamps stamp VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 raises raise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 only only ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 17 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 18 sprays spray VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 liquid liquid NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 smelly smelly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 remember remember VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:ccomp 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **attack** | present · do-support | the skunk | | | | | without warning | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **stamp** | present | skunk | | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **raise** | present | skunk *not said here* | skunk's tail | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme | | 4 | **spray** | present | the skunk *not said here* | a liquid | | | then | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent liquid=Theme | | 5 | **remember** | future | a dog | liquid | | | | for life | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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:224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks.lesson:3`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Raccoons, opossums and skunks, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks/2/) - next →: [Raccoons, opossums and skunks, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks/)