--- title: The Chinese water deer has no antlers at all; males have long fangs… — Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red… · tree and pragmatics description: The Chinese water deer has no antlers at all; males have long fangs instead, and it lives in reed beds and wet fields. Who acts: Chinese water deer, males, deer. 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 co --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/318-deer-antlers-that-fall-off-and-grow-again-red-deer-roe-deer-moose-muntjac-and-water-deer/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Deer: antlers that fall off and grow a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/318-deer-antlers-that-fall-off-and-grow-again-red-deer-roe-deer-moose-muntjac-and-water-deer/) / 16 # Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red deer, roe deer, moose, muntjac and water deer, sentence 16 The Chinese water deer has no antlers at all; males have long fangs instead, and it lives in reed beds and wet fields. **Who acts:** Chinese water deer, males, deer · **What happens:** have, live · **To what, where:** antlers, all, long fangs, reed beds 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 (Chinese water deer, males, 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:16 # text = The Chinese water deer has no antlers at all; males have long fangs instead, and it lives in reed beds and wet fields. # 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 ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 deer deer NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 7 det _ _ 7 antlers antler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 7 nmod _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 males male NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 13 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 fangs fang NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 instead instead ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 reed reed NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 beds bed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | the Chinese water deer | no antlers | | all | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antler=Patient | | 2 | **have** | present | males | long fangs | | | | instead *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fang=Patient | | 3 | **live** | present | deer | | | reed beds and wet fields | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bed=Location | 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:16`. **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 ×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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