Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red deer, roe deer, moose, muntjac and water deer, sentence 12

Roe deer are small, about 70 centimetres at the shoulder, with a white rump; when alarmed they bark like a dog, and their spotted babies lie still alone in the grass while the mother feeds nearby.

Who acts: Roe deer, centimetres, spotted babies, mother · What happens: be, alarm, bark, spot, lie, feed · To what, where: grass

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 (Roe deer, centimetres, spotted babies, mother), 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	Roe	roe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 deer	compound
2	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 small	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 small	cop
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 centimetres	punct
6	about	about	ADV	_	7 70	advmod
7	70	70	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 centimetres	nummod
8	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 small	appos
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 shoulder	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shoulder	det
11	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 centimetres	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 rump	punct
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 rump	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 rump	det
15	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 rump	amod
16	rump	rump	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 centimetres	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 alarmed	punct
18	when	when	SCONJ	_	19 alarmed	mark
19	alarmed	alarm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 rump	conj
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 bark	nsubj
21	bark	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 alarmed	conj
22	like	like	ADP	_	24 dog	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 dog	det
24	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bark	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 lie	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 lie	cc
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 babies	nmod:poss
28	spotted	spot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 babies	amod
29	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 lie	nsubj
30	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 bark	conj
31	still	still	ADV	_	32 alone	advmod
32	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 lie	xcomp
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 grass	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 grass	det
35	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lie	obl
36	while	while	SCONJ	_	39 feeds	mark
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 mother	det
38	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 feeds	nsubj
39	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 alone	conj
40	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	39 feeds	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 small	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Roe deer		small property	tree rules
2	alarm	participle	Roe deer not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	bark	present	centimetres = centimetre		like a dog	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	spot	participle				vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
5	lie	present	centimetres's spotted babies	the grass	alone property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in grass=Location
6	feed	present	the mother		nearby property	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent

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:12.

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 ×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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