Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red deer, roe deer, moose, muntjac and water deer, sentence 10

Each tip of an antler is called a point or tine; a big red deer stag can have twelve or more, and hunters called a twelve-pointer a royal, but points do not show a stag's exact age.

Who acts: big red deer stag, hunters, points · What happens: call, have, not show · To what, where: tip, twelve, twelve pointer, exact age · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (big red deer stag, hunters, points), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 tip	det
2	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 called	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 antler	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 antler	det
5	antler	antler	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tip	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 called	aux:pass
7	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 point	det
9	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 called	xcomp
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 tine	cc
11	tine	tine	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 point	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 stag	det
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 stag	amod
15	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 stag	amod
16	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stag	compound
17	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 have	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 have	aux
19	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 called	parataxis
20	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 have	obj
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 more	cc
22	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 twelve	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 called	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 called	cc
25	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 called	nsubj
26	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 have	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 pointer	det
28	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 pointer	nummod
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 twelve	punct
30	pointer	pointer	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 called	obj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 royal	det
32	royal	royal	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 called	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 show	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 show	cc
35	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 show	nsubj
36	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 show	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 show	advmod
38	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 called	conj
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 stag	det
40	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 age	nmod:poss
41	's	's	PART	_	40 stag	case
42	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 age	amod
43	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 show	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 called	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	call speech: assert	present · passive		each tip of a antler	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	have	can	a big red deer stag	twelve	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twelve=Patient
3	call	past	hunters	a twelve pointer	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent pointer=Theme royal=Result
4	not show	present · do-support	points	a stag's exact age	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent age=Recipient

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:10.

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 ×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.

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