Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red deer, roe deer, moose, muntjac and water deer, sentence 13

The moose, called elk in Europe, is the biggest deer, up to about 2 metres at the shoulder; it dives for water plants, can close its nostrils under water, and a bull's antlers can be about 1.8 metres across.

Who acts: moose, deer, antlers · What happens: call, be, dive, close · To what, where: elk, Europe, biggest deer, nostrils, water, 1.8 metres · 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 (moose, deer, antlers), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 moose	det
2	moose	moose	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 deer	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 moose	punct
4	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 moose	acl
5	elk	elk	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 called	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Europe	case
7	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 called	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 deer	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 deer	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 deer	det
11	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 deer	amod
12	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 metres	punct
14	up	up	ADV	_	18 metres	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	14 up	fixed
16	about	about	ADV	_	17 2	advmod
17	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 metres	nummod
18	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 deer	conj
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 shoulder	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 shoulder	det
21	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 metres	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 dives	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 dives	nsubj
24	dives	dive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 deer	parataxis
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 plants	case
26	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 plants	compound
27	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 dives	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 close	punct
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 close	aux
30	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 dives	conj
31	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 nostrils	nmod:poss
32	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 close	obj
33	under	under	ADP	_	34 water	case
34	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 close	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 metres	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 metres	cc
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 bull	det
38	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 antlers	nmod:poss
39	's	's	PART	_	38 bull	case
40	antlers	antler	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 metres	nsubj
41	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 metres	aux
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 metres	cop
43	about	about	ADV	_	44 1.8	advmod
44	1.8	1.8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Frac	45 metres	nummod
45	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 deer	conj
46	across	across	ADV	_	12 deer	advmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 deer	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	participle	the moose not said here	elk	Europe		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	the moose	the biggest deer and 2 metres at the shoulder and 1.8 metres		across property	tree rules
3	dive	present	deer			for water plants	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for plant=Theme
4	close	can	deer not said here	deer's nostrils	water		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nostril=Patient
5	is a	can	a bull's antlers	1.8 metres			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:13.

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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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