--- title: The muntjac, a small deer from China, escaped from parks into the En… — Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red… · tree and pragmatics description: The muntjac, a small deer from China, escaped from parks into the English countryside about a hundred years ago; males have short antlers and long tusk-like teeth, it barks, and it can breed at any time of year. Who acts: muntjac, males. 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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 (muntjac, males), 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:15 # text = The muntjac, a small deer from China, escaped from parks into the English countryside about a hundred years ago; males have short antlers and long tusk-like teeth, it barks, and it can breed at any time of year. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 muntjac muntjac NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 deer deer NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 10 escaped escape VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 parks park NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 13 into into ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 countryside countryside NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 17 about about ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:det 19 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl:unmarked 21 ago ago ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advmod 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=10:punct 23 males male NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 25 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 antlers antler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 28 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 29 tusk tusk NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ _ 31 like like ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 barks bark VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 breed breed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ _ 41 at at ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 43 det _ _ 43 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **escape** | past | the muntjac | | | parks | | into the English countryside; ago *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from park=Initial\_Location into countryside=Destination | | 2 | **have** | present | males | short antlers and long like teeth | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antler=Patient | | 3 | **bark** | present | muntjac | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **breed** | can | muntjac | | | | time | | tree rules | 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:15`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, 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. 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