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title: Crashes with moose are dangerous because long legs put the heavy bod… — Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red… · tree and pragmatics
description: Crashes with moose are dangerous because long legs put the heavy body at windscreen height; car makers in Sweden test cars with a sharp swerve called the moose test. Who acts: Crashes, long legs, car makers, sharp swerve. A sentence of the lesson «Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red deer
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# Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red deer, roe deer, moose, muntjac and water deer, sentence 14

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Crashes with moose are dangerous because long legs put the heavy body at windscreen height; car makers in Sweden test cars with a sharp swerve called the moose test.

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**Who acts:** Crashes, long legs, car makers, sharp swerve · **What happens:** be, put, test, call · **To what, where:** heavy body, windscreen height, cars, moose test · **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 (Crashes, long legs, car makers, sharp swerve), 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:14
# text = Crashes with moose are dangerous because long legs put the heavy body at windscreen height; car makers in Sweden test cars with a sharp swerve called the moose test.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Crashes	crash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	moose	moose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	put	put	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	windscreen	windscreen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
17	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	makers	maker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:appos
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Sweden	Sweden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	test	test	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
22	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	swerve	swerve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	moose	moose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1: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 | **is** | present | Crashes with moose |  |  |  |  | dangerous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **put** | present | long legs | the heavy body |  | windscreen height |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent body=Theme at height=Destination |
| 3 | **test** | present | car makers in Sweden | cars |  |  |  | with a sharp swerve | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Theme |
| 4 | **call** | participle | a sharp swerve *not said here* | the moose test |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent test=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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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/).

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