Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls, sentence 7

Antlers are bone and grow new every year; only male deer grow them, except reindeer, where females do too, and growing antlers are covered in soft velvet.

Who acts: Antlers, male deer · What happens: be, grow, cover · To what, where: bone, Antlers, growing antlers

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 (Antlers, male deer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Antlers	antler	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bone	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bone	cop
3	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 grow	cc
5	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bone	conj
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grow	xcomp
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 year	det
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grow	obl:unmarked
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 grow	punct
10	only	only	ADV	_	12 deer	advmod
11	male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 deer	amod
12	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 grow	nsubj
13	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bone	parataxis
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 grow	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 reindeer	punct
16	except	except	ADP	_	17 reindeer	case
17	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grow	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 covered	punct
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 do	advmod
20	females	female	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 do	nsubj
21	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 covered	aux
22	too	too	ADV	_	21 do	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 covered	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 covered	cc
25	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 antlers	amod
26	antlers	antler	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 covered	nsubj:pass
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 covered	aux:pass
28	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 grow	conj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 velvet	case
30	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 velvet	amod
31	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 covered	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bone	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Antlers	bone			tree rules
2	grow	present	Antlers not said here		year	new property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grow	present	male deer	Antlers = antler		except reindeer	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
4	grow	gerund					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	cover	present · passive · do-support		growing antlers		in soft velvet	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in velvet=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, 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:7.

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 ×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.

See the release 0.4.

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