--- title: While they grow they are covered in soft furry velvet full of blood;… — Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red… · tree and pragmatics description: While they grow they are covered in soft furry velvet full of blood; then the velvet dries and the deer rubs it off on trees. Who acts: antlers, velvet, 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 cours --- [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/3/) [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/) / 3 # Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red deer, roe deer, moose, muntjac and water deer, sentence 3 While they grow they are covered in soft furry velvet full of blood; then the velvet dries and the deer rubs it off on trees. **Who acts:** antlers, velvet, deer · **What happens:** grow, cover, dry, rub off · **To what, where:** antlers, velvet, trees 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 (antlers, velvet, 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:3 # text = While they grow they are covered in soft furry velvet full of blood; then the velvet dries and the deer rubs it off on trees. # 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): no change 1 While while SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 parataxis _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 furry furry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 velvet velvet NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 15 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 velvet velvet NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 dries dry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 deer deer NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 rubs rub VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 off off ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | present | antlers *= antler* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **cover** | present · passive | | antlers *= antler* | | | | in soft furry velvet | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in velvet=Theme | | 3 | **dry** | present | the velvet | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **rub off** | present | the deer | velvet | | trees | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on tree=Destination | 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:3`. **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): no change. **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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