--- title: Roe deer are small, about 70 centimetres at the shoulder, with a whi… — Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red… · tree and pragmatics description: Roe deer are small, about 70 centimetres at the shoulder, with a white rump; when alarmed they bark like a dog, and their spotted babies lie still alone in the grass while the mother feeds nearby. Who acts: Roe deer, centimetres, spotted babies, 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 (Roe deer, centimetres, spotted babies, mother), 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:12 # text = Roe deer are small, about 70 centimetres at the shoulder, with a white rump; when alarmed they bark like a dog, and their spotted babies lie still alone in the grass while the mother feeds nearby. # 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): R5-strong ×2 1 Roe roe NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 deer deer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 about about ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 70 70 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 centimetres centimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 appos _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 shoulder shoulder NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 rump rump NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 when when SCONJ WRB _ 19 mark _ _ 19 alarmed alarm VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 conj _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 bark bark VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 22 like like ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 spotted spot VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 amod _ _ 29 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 lie lie VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:parataxis 31 still still ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 alone alone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:obl 36 while while SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 feeds feed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 40 nearby nearby ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Roe deer | | | | | small *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **alarm** | participle | Roe deer *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **bark** | present | centimetres *= centimetre* | | | | | like a dog | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **spot** | participle | | | | | | | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | | 5 | **lie** | present | centimetres's spotted babies | | | the grass | | alone *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in grass=Location | | 6 | **feed** | present | the mother | | | | | nearby *property* | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | 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:12`. **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 ×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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