--- title: A baby deer, called a fawn, is often left hidden in the grass while… — Kindness to wild animals · tree and pragmatics description: A baby deer, called a fawn, is often left hidden in the grass while its mother feeds nearby, so it should be left alone. Who acts: baby deer, mother. 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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 (baby deer, mother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:226-kindness-to-wild-animals.lesson:5 # text = A baby deer, called a fawn, is often left hidden in the grass while its mother feeds nearby, so it should be left alone. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 226-kindness-to-wild-animals.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 deer deer NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 fawn fawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obj 8 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 10 often often ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 12 hidden hide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 xcomp _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 while while SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 feeds feed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 20 nearby nearby ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ _ 27 alone alone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 11 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 | a baby deer *not said here* | a fawn | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **leave** | present · passive | | a baby deer | | | | often *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **hide** | participle | a baby deer *not said here* | | | the grass | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in grass=Location | | 4 | **feed** | present | deer's mother | | | | | nearby *property* | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **leave** | should · passive | | deer | | | | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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:226-kindness-to-wild-animals.lesson:5`. **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, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Kindness to wild animals, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/3/) - next →: [Kindness to wild animals, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/)