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title: In the autumn rut, red deer stags roar, walk side by side and someti… — Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the autumn rut, red deer stags roar, walk side by side and sometimes lock antlers; roaring and walking show strength without a real fight, and the red deer is the biggest wild land mammal in Britain. Who acts: deer stags, red deer. A sentence of the lesson «Deer: antlers that fall off and grow ag
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# Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red deer, roe deer, moose, muntjac and water deer, sentence 11

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In the autumn rut, red deer stags roar, walk side by side and sometimes lock antlers; roaring and walking show strength without a real fight, and the red deer is the biggest wild land mammal in Britain.

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**Who acts:** deer stags, red deer · **What happens:** roar, walk, lock, show, be · **To what, where:** autumn rut, side, antlers, strength, biggest wild land mammal, Britain

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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 (deer stags, red deer), 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:11
# text = In the autumn rut, red deer stags roar, walk side by side and sometimes lock antlers; roaring and walking show strength without a real fight, and the red deer is the biggest wild land mammal in Britain.
# 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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	rut	rut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	stags	stag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	roar	roar	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
12	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	17	advmod	_	_
17	lock	lock	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	antlers	antler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	roaring	roar	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	nsubj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
23	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
24	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	without	without	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
36	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	39	amod	_	_
37	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	mammal	mammal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **roar** | present | deer stags |  |  | the autumn rut |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rut=Location |
| 2 | **walk** | present | deer stags *not said here* | side |  |  |  | by side | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent side=Theme by side=Trajectory |
| 3 | **lock** | present | deer stags *not said here* | antlers |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antler=Patient |
| 4 | **roar** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **walk** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **show** | present |  | strength |  |  |  | without a real fight | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent strength=Recipient |
| 7 | **is a** | present | the red deer | the biggest wild land mammal |  | Britain |  |  | tree rules |

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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): 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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