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title: Each tip of an antler is called a point or tine; a big red deer stag… — Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red… · tree and pragmatics
description: Each tip of an antler is called a point or tine; a big red deer stag can have twelve or more, and hunters called a twelve-pointer a royal, but points do not show a stag's exact age. Who acts: big red deer stag, hunters, points. A sentence of the lesson «Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; re
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# Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red deer, roe deer, moose, muntjac and water deer, sentence 10

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Each tip of an antler is called a point or tine; a big red deer stag can have twelve or more, and hunters called a twelve-pointer a royal, but points do not show a stag's exact age.

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**Who acts:** big red deer stag, hunters, points · **What happens:** call, have, not show · **To what, where:** tip, twelve, twelve pointer, exact age · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (big red deer stag, hunters, points), 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:10
# text = Each tip of an antler is called a point or tine; a big red deer stag can have twelve or more, and hunters called a twelve-pointer a royal, but points do not show a stag's exact age.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	tip	tip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	antler	antler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	tine	tine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	stag	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
20	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	obj	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	_
30	pointer	pointer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	royal	royal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
35	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
36	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
38	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advcl
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	stag	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod:poss	_	_
41	's	's	PART	POS	_	40	case	_	_
42	exact	exact	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | each tip of a antler |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **have** | can | a big red deer stag | twelve |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twelve=Patient |
| 3 | **call** | past | hunters | a twelve pointer |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent pointer=Theme royal=Result |
| 4 | **not** **show** | present · do-support | points | a stag's exact age |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent age=Recipient |

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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.

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**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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