Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red deer, roe deer, moose, muntjac and water deer, sentence 0

Imagine growing a pair of bony branches on your head every summer, fighting with them in autumn and dropping them in winter.

Who acts: you · What happens: imagine, grow, fight, drop · To what, where: pair, head, branches

This is a sentence of the lesson «Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red deer, roe deer, moose, muntjac and water deer» 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 (you), 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	Imagine	imagine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Imagine	xcomp
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pair	det
4	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 growing	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 branches	case
6	bony	bony	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 branches	amod
7	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pair	nmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 head	case
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 head	nmod:poss
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 growing	obl
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 summer	det
12	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 growing	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fighting	punct
14	fighting	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 growing	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fighting	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 autumn	case
18	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fighting	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 dropping	cc
20	dropping	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 fighting	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 dropping	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 winter	case
23	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dropping	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Imagine	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	imagine	imperative	you not said here					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	grow	gerund	you not said here	a pair of bony branches	your head	summer		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pair=Theme
3	fight	gerund	you not said here			autumn	with branches = branch	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with they=Co-Agent
4	drop	gerund	you not said here	branches = branch		winter		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:318-deer-antlers-that-fall-off-and-grow-again-red-deer-roe-deer-moose-muntjac-and-water-deer.lesson:0.

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): no change. 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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