--- title: The moose, called elk in Britain, is the largest deer; a big bull ca… — Forests: woodland through the year and the great… · tree and pragmatics description: The moose, called elk in Britain, is the largest deer; a big bull can stand over 2 metres at the shoulder and can put its whole head under water to eat salty water plants. Who acts: moose, big bull. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moose, big bull), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:012-forests-woodland-through-the-year.lesson:11 # text = The moose, called elk in Britain, is the largest deer; a big bull can stand over 2 metres at the shoulder and can put its whole head under water to eat salty water plants. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 012-forests-woodland-through-the-year.lesson # annotation = 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 moose moose NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 5 elk elk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod 8 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 12 amod _ _ 12 deer deer NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 bull bull NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 parataxis _ _ 19 over over ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advmod 20 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 shoulder shoulder NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 28 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 under under ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ _ 35 salty salty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 36 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | participle | the moose *not said here* | elk | | Britain | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | the moose | the largest deer | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **stand over** | can | a big bull | 2 metres | | the shoulder | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at shoulder=Location | | 4 | **put** | can | a big bull *not said here* | shoulder's whole head | | water | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme under water=Destination | | 5 | **eat** | to-infinitive | a big bull *not said here* | salty water plants | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. 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