Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red deer, roe deer, moose, muntjac and water deer, sentence 3

While they grow they are covered in soft furry velvet full of blood; then the velvet dries and the deer rubs it off on trees.

Who acts: antlers, velvet, deer · What happens: grow, cover, dry, rub off · To what, where: antlers, velvet, trees

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 (antlers, velvet, 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	3 grow	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grow	nsubj
3	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 covered	advcl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 covered	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 covered	aux:pass
6	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 dries	parataxis
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 velvet	case
8	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 velvet	amod
9	furry	furry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 velvet	amod
10	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 covered	obl
11	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 velvet	amod
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 blood	case
13	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 full	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 grow	punct
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 velvet	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 velvet	det
17	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dries	nsubj
18	dries	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 rubs	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 deer	det
21	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rubs	nsubj
22	rubs	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 dries	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 rubs	obj
24	off	off	ADP	_	22 rubs	compound:prt
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 trees	case
26	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 rubs	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 dries	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	present	antlers = antler				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cover	present · passive		antlers = antler		in soft furry velvet	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in velvet=Theme
3	dry	present	the velvet				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	rub off	present	the deer	velvet	trees		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on tree=Destination

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:3.

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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