--- title: Reindeer are the only deer in which both males and females grow antl… — Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red… · tree and pragmatics description: Reindeer are the only deer in which both males and females grow antlers; males drop theirs in early winter, while females keep theirs through the winter. Who acts: Reindeer, males, females. 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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 (Reindeer, males, females), 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:19 # text = Reindeer are the only deer in which both males and females grow antlers; males drop theirs in early winter, while females keep theirs through the winter. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Reindeer reindeer NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 deer deer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 obl _ _ 8 both both CCONJ CC _ 9 cc:preconj _ _ 9 males male NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 females female NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 12 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 13 antlers antler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 males male NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 drop drop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 17 theirs their PRON PRP Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 while while SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 females female NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 25 theirs their PRON PRP Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 through through ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 . . 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 | **is a** | present | Reindeer | the only deer | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **grow** | present | males and females | antlers | | the only deer | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location antler=Theme | | 3 | **drop** | present | males | antlers *= antler* | | | winter | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent their=Theme | | 4 | **keep** | present | females | antlers *= antler* | | | winter | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent their=Theme | 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:19`. **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): R8-pos-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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