Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red deer, roe deer, moose, muntjac and water deer, sentence 11

In the autumn rut, red deer stags roar, walk side by side and sometimes lock antlers; roaring and walking show strength without a real fight, and the red deer is the biggest wild land mammal in Britain.

Who acts: deer stags, red deer · What happens: roar, walk, lock, show, be · To what, where: autumn rut, side, antlers, strength, biggest wild land mammal, Britain

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 (deer stags, red 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 rut	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rut	det
3	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rut	compound
4	rut	rut	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 roar	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rut	punct
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 deer	amod
7	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stags	compound
8	stags	stag	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 roar	nsubj
9	roar	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 walk	punct
11	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 roar	conj
12	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 walk	obj
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 side	case
14	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 walk	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 lock	cc
16	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 lock	advmod
17	lock	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 walk	conj
18	antlers	antler	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 lock	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 roaring	punct
20	roaring	roar	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 show	nsubj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 walking	cc
22	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 roaring	conj
23	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 roar	parataxis
24	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 show	obj
25	without	without	ADP	_	28 fight	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 fight	det
27	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fight	amod
28	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 show	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 mammal	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 mammal	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 deer	det
32	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 deer	amod
33	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 mammal	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 mammal	cop
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 mammal	det
36	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	39 mammal	amod
37	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 mammal	amod
38	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 mammal	compound
39	mammal	mammal	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 show	conj
40	in	in	ADP	_	41 Britain	case
41	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 mammal	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 roar	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	roar	present	deer stags		the autumn rut		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rut=Location
2	walk	present	deer stags not said here	side		by side	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent side=Theme by side=Trajectory
3	lock	present	deer stags not said here	antlers		sometimes property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antler=Patient
4	roar	gerund					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	walk	gerund					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	show	present		strength		without a real fight	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent strength=Recipient
7	is a	present	the red deer	the biggest wild land mammal	Britain		tree rules

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:11.

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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