--- title: Growing antlers are covered in velvet, a skin full of blood vessels;… — Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red… · tree and pragmatics description: Growing antlers are covered in velvet, a skin full of blood vessels; when the antlers are fully grown the velvet dries and the deer rubs it off on trees, and scientists study antlers to learn how bone can regrow fast. Who acts: velvet, deer, scientists, bone. 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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 (velvet, deer, scientists, bone), 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:8 # text = Growing antlers are covered in velvet, a skin full of blood vessels; when the antlers are fully grown the velvet dries and the deer rubs it off on trees, and scientists study antlers to learn how bone can regrow fast. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 amod _ _ 2 antlers antler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 velvet velvet NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 10 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 vessels vessel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 antlers antler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 19 fully fully ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 advcl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 velvet velvet NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 dries dry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:det 26 deer deer NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:compound 27 rubs rub VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 off off ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 study study VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 36 antlers antler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:xcomp 39 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 42 advmod _ _ 40 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 41 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 regrow regrow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 ccomp _ _ 43 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 42 advmod _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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** | gerund | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **cover** | present · passive | | Growing antlers | | | | in velvet | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in velvet=Theme | | 3 | **grow** | present · passive | | the antlers | | | | fully *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **dry** | present | the velvet | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **rub off** | present | the deer | velvet | | trees | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on tree=Destination | | 6 | **study** | present | scientists | antlers | | | | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antler=Topic | | 7 | **learn** | to-infinitive | scientists *not said here* | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **regrow** | can | bone | | | | | fast *property* | tree rules | 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:8`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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