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title: About 1,200 sika deer roam freely in Nara, Japan, as protected sacre… — Big wild animals in cities: wild boar, deer, coy… · tree and pragmatics
description: About 1,200 sika deer roam freely in Nara, Japan, as protected sacred animals; many have learned to bob their heads for special crackers, and they sometimes butt people who tease them. Who acts: 1,200 sika deer, many, stripes, people. A sentence of the lesson «Big wild animals in cities: wild boar, 
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# Big wild animals in cities: wild boar, deer, coyotes, monkeys and leopards, sentence 7

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About 1,200 sika deer roam freely in Nara, Japan, as protected sacred animals; many have learned to bob their heads for special crackers, and they sometimes butt people who tease them.

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**Who acts:** 1,200 sika deer, many, stripes, people · **What happens:** roam, protect, learn, bob, butt, tease · **To what, where:** protected sacred animals, Nara, heads, people, stripes

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Big wild animals in cities: wild boar, deer, coyotes, monkeys and leopards» 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 (1,200 sika deer, many, stripes, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:368-big-wild-animals-in-cities-wild-boar-deer-coyotes-monkeys-and-leopards.lesson:7
# text = About 1,200 sika deer roam freely in Nara, Japan, as protected sacred animals; many have learned to bob their heads for special crackers, and they sometimes butt people who tease them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 368-big-wild-animals-in-cities-wild-boar-deer-coyotes-monkeys-and-leopards.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	1,200	1200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	sika	sika	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	roam	roam	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	freely	freely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Nara	Nara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	protected	protect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advcl
14	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	bob	bob	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	crackers	cracker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	butt	butt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
32	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
33	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	tease	tease	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **roam** | present | 1,200 sika deer | protected sacred animals |  | Nara |  | freely *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nara=Trajectory |
| 2 | **protect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **learn** | present · perfect | many |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **bob** | to-infinitive | many *not said here* | stripes's heads |  |  |  | for special crackers | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 5 | **butt** | present | stripes *= stripe* | people |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent people=Instrument |
| 6 | **tease** | present | people | stripes *= stripe* |  |  |  |  | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 ×2, 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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