--- title: Antlers are bone and grow new every year; only male deer grow them,… — Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls · tree and pragmatics description: Antlers are bone and grow new every year; only male deer grow them, except reindeer, where females do too, and growing antlers are covered in soft velvet. Who acts: Antlers, male deer. 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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 (Antlers, male deer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls.lesson:7 # text = Antlers are bone and grow new every year; only male deer grow them, except reindeer, where females do too, and growing antlers are covered in soft velvet. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Antlers antler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 6 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:amod 7 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 8 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 only only ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod 11 male male ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 deer deer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 except except ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 reindeer reindeer NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 18 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 19 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 21 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:advmod 20 females female NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 22 too too ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 amod _ _ 26 antlers antler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 velvet velvet NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Antlers | bone | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **grow** | present | Antlers *not said here* | | | | year | new *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **grow** | present | male deer | Antlers *= antler* | | | | except reindeer | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | | 4 | **grow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **cover** | present · passive · do-support | | growing antlers | | | | in soft velvet | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in velvet=Theme | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls.lesson:7`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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