Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red deer, roe deer, moose, muntjac and water deer, sentence 17
The Chinese water deer is threatened in China, but escaped water deer spread in England, which now holds a big share of the world's population, reported.
Who acts: water deer, England · What happens: threaten, escape, spread, hold, report, share · To what, where: Chinese water deer, China, water deer, England, big share, population
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 (water deer, England), 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 | 6 threatened | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 threatened | aux:pass |
| 6 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 reported | ccomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 China | case |
| 8 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 threatened | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 escaped | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 escaped | cc |
| 11 | escaped | escape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 deer | acl |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 deer | compound |
| 13 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spread | nsubj |
| 14 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 threatened | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 England | case |
| 16 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 spread | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 holds | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 holds | nsubj |
| 19 | now | now | ADV | _ | 20 holds | advmod |
| 20 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 England | acl:relcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 share | det |
| 22 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 share | amod |
| 23 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 holds | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 population | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 world | det |
| 26 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 population | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 world | case |
| 28 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 share | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 population | punct |
| 30 | reported | report | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 reported | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | threaten | present · passive | the Chinese water deer | China | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | escape | participle | water deer not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | spread | past | water deer | England | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in england=Location | ||||
| 4 | hold | present | England | a big share of the world's population | now | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Theme | |||
| 5 | report | past | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | share | the world's population | nom share «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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:17.
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, R6-punct-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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