Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red deer, roe deer, moose, muntjac and water deer, sentence 16

The Chinese water deer has no antlers at all; males have long fangs instead, and it lives in reed beds and wet fields.

Who acts: Chinese water deer, males, deer · What happens: have, live · To what, where: antlers, all, long fangs, reed beds

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 (Chinese water deer, males, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 deer	det
2	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 deer	amod
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deer	compound
4	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 antlers	det
7	antlers	antler	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 has	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 antlers	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
11	males	male	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 have	nsubj
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 has	parataxis
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fangs	amod
14	fangs	fang	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 have	obj
15	instead	instead	ADV	_	12 have	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lives	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 lives	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 lives	nsubj
19	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 have	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 beds	case
21	reed	reed	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 beds	compound
22	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 lives	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 fields	cc
24	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 fields	amod
25	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 beds	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	the Chinese water deer	no antlers	all		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antler=Patient
2	have	present	males	long fangs		instead property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fang=Patient
3	live	present	deer		reed beds and wet fields		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bed=Location

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:16.

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 ×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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