--- title: Imagine growing a pair of bony branches on your head every summer, f… — Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red… · tree and pragmatics description: Imagine growing a pair of bony branches on your head every summer, fighting with them in autumn and dropping them in winter. Who acts: you. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/318-deer-antlers-that-fall-off-and-grow-again-red-deer-roe-deer-moose-muntjac-and-water-deer/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Deer: antlers that fall off and grow a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/318-deer-antlers-that-fall-off-and-grow-again-red-deer-roe-deer-moose-muntjac-and-water-deer/) / 0 # Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red deer, roe deer, moose, muntjac and water deer, sentence 0 Imagine growing a pair of bony branches on your head every summer, fighting with them in autumn and dropping them in winter. **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** imagine, grow, fight, drop · **To what, where:** pair, head, branches 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:318-deer-antlers-that-fall-off-and-grow-again-red-deer-roe-deer-moose-muntjac-and-water-deer.lesson:0 # text = Imagine growing a pair of bony branches on your head every summer, fighting with them in autumn and dropping them in winter. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 318-deer-antlers-that-fall-off-and-grow-again-red-deer-roe-deer-moose-muntjac-and-water-deer.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): no change 1 Imagine imagine VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 xcomp _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 bony bony ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 branches branch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 11 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 12 det _ _ 12 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 fighting fight VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 conj _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 autumn autumn NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 dropping drop VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 conj _ _ 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **imagine** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **grow** | gerund | you *not said here* | a pair of bony branches | | your head | summer | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pair=Theme | | 3 | **fight** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | autumn | with branches *= branch* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with they=Co-Agent | | 4 | **drop** | gerund | you *not said here* | branches *= branch* | | | winter | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:318-deer-antlers-that-fall-off-and-grow-again-red-deer-roe-deer-moose-muntjac-and-water-deer.lesson:0`. **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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