Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red deer, roe deer, moose, muntjac and water deer, sentence 6

Deer come in all sizes, from the moose, taller than a grown man at the shoulder, to the little muntjac that barks like a dog in English woods at night.

Who acts: Deer, little muntjac · What happens: come in, grow, bark · To what, where: sizes, English woods

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 (Deer, little muntjac), 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	Deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADV	_	2 come	advmod
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 sizes	det
5	sizes	size	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 moose	punct
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 moose	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 moose	det
9	moose	moose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 come	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 taller	punct
11	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 moose	amod
12	than	than	ADP	_	15 man	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 taller	obl
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 shoulder	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 shoulder	det
18	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 man	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 muntjac	punct
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 muntjac	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 muntjac	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 muntjac	amod
23	muntjac	muntjac	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 man	conj
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 barks	nsubj
25	barks	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 muntjac	acl:relcl
26	like	like	ADP	_	28 dog	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 dog	det
28	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 barks	obl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 woods	case
30	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 woods	compound
31	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 barks	obl
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 night	case
33	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 barks	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 come	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in	present	Deer	all sizes				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	participle						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bark	present	the little muntjac		English woods	night	like a dog	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: 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:6.

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 ×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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