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title: Deer come in all sizes, from the moose, taller than a grown man at t… — Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red… · tree and pragmatics
description: Deer come in all sizes, from the moose, taller than a grown man at the shoulder, to the little muntjac that barks like a dog in English woods at night. Who acts: Deer, little muntjac. A sentence of the lesson «Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red deer, roe deer, moose, muntjac and water d
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# Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red deer, roe deer, moose, muntjac and water deer, sentence 6

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Deer come in all sizes, from the moose, taller than a grown man at the shoulder, to the little muntjac that barks like a dog in English woods at night.

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**Who acts:** Deer, little muntjac · **What happens:** come in, grow, bark · **To what, where:** sizes, English woods

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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 (Deer, little muntjac), 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:6
# text = Deer come in all sizes, from the moose, taller than a grown man at the shoulder, to the little muntjac that barks like a dog in English woods at night.
# 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 ×2
1	Deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	sizes	size	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	moose	moose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	taller	tall	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:parataxis
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	amod	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	muntjac	muntjac	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	barks	bark	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	like	like	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **come in** | present | Deer | all sizes |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bark** | present | the little muntjac |  |  | English woods | night | like a dog | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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