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title: Deer antlers fall off every year and grow back; they are bone and ca… — Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red… · tree and pragmatics
description: Deer antlers fall off every year and grow back; they are bone and can grow over 2 centimetres a day in big deer, and fallen antlers are often gnawed by mice and squirrels for their minerals. Who acts: Deer antlers, antlers, mice. A sentence of the lesson «Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; 
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# Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red deer, roe deer, moose, muntjac and water deer, sentence 7

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Deer antlers fall off every year and grow back; they are bone and can grow over 2 centimetres a day in big deer, and fallen antlers are often gnawed by mice and squirrels for their minerals.

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**Who acts:** Deer antlers, antlers, mice · **What happens:** fall off, grow back, be, grow, fall, gnaw · **To what, where:** bone, 2 centimetres, big deer, fallen antlers

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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 antlers, antlers, mice), 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:7
# text = Deer antlers fall off every year and grow back; they are bone and can grow over 2 centimetres a day in big deer, and fallen antlers are often gnawed by mice and squirrels for their minerals.
# 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	antlers	antler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
17	over	over	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
28	antlers	antler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
30	often	often	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	gnawed	gnaw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	minerals	mineral	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall off** | present | Deer antlers |  |  |  | year |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **grow back** | present | Deer antlers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | antlers *= antler* | bone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **grow** | can | antlers *= antler* *not said here* | 2 centimetres |  | big deer | day |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location centimetre=Theme |
| 5 | **fall** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **gnaw** | present · passive | mice and squirrels | fallen antlers |  |  |  | for antlers's minerals; often *property* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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 ×1, 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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