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title: The Chinese water deer is threatened in China, but escaped water dee… — Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Chinese water deer is threatened in China, but escaped water deer spread in England, which now holds a big share of the world's population, reported. Who acts: water deer, England. A sentence of the lesson «Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red deer, roe deer, moose, muntjac and water 
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# Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red deer, roe deer, moose, muntjac and water deer, sentence 17

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The Chinese water deer is threatened in China, but escaped water deer spread in England, which now holds a big share of the world's population, reported.

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**Who acts:** water deer, England · **What happens:** threaten, escape, spread, hold, report, share · **To what, where:** Chinese water deer, China, water deer, England, big share, population

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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 (water deer, England), 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:17
# text = The Chinese water deer is threatened in China, but escaped water deer spread in England, which now holds a big share of the world's population, reported.
# 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, R6-punct-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	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	threatened	threaten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	escaped	escape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	acl	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	now	now	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	share	share	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
30	reported	report	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:parataxis
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6: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 | **threaten** | present · passive |  | the Chinese water deer |  | China |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **escape** | participle |  | water deer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **spread** | past | water deer |  |  | England |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in england=Location |
| 4 | **hold** | present | England | a big share of the world's population |  |  | now |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Theme |
| 5 | **report** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **share** |  |  | the world's population |  |  |  |  | nom share «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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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