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title: Many animals use smelly sprays or oils to scare enemies, like the sk… — Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their drop… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many animals use smelly sprays or oils to scare enemies, like the skunk and its African cousin the zorilla, and hoopoe chicks squirt smelly poo and a nasty oil at intruders, so predators remember never to try again. Who acts: Many animals, hoopoe chicks, predators. A sentence of the lesson «Poo, wee
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# Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their droppings, dung beetles and the smelliest animals, sentence 18

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Many animals use smelly sprays or oils to scare enemies, like the skunk and its African cousin the zorilla, and hoopoe chicks squirt smelly poo and a nasty oil at intruders, so predators remember never to try again.

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**Who acts:** Many animals, hoopoe chicks, predators · **What happens:** use, scare, squirt, not remember, not try · **To what, where:** smelly sprays, enemies, smelly poo, intruders

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their droppings, dung beetles and the smelliest animals» 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 (Many animals, hoopoe chicks, predators), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals.lesson:18
# text = Many animals use smelly sprays or oils to scare enemies, like the skunk and its African cousin the zorilla, and hoopoe chicks squirt smelly poo and a nasty oil at intruders, so predators remember never to try again.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	smelly	smelly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sprays	spray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	oils	oil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	scare	scare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
10	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	skunk	skunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	zorilla	zorilla	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	hoopoe	hoopoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	chicks	chicks	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	squirt	squirt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	smelly	smelly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	poo	poo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	nasty	nasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	intruders	intruder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	predators	predator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
37	remember	remember	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
38	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
41	again	again	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **use** | present | Many animals | smelly sprays or oils |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spray=Patient |
| 2 | **scare** | to-infinitive | Many animals *not said here* | enemies |  |  |  | like the skunk and bamboo's African cousin | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus enemy=Experiencer |
| 3 | **squirt** | present | hoopoe chicks | smelly poo and a nasty oil |  | intruders |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: agent=Agent poo=Theme at intruder=Destination |
| 4 | **not** **remember** | present | predators |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **try** | to-infinitive | predators *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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): R6-punct-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.

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