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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 (giant deer, antlers, males), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:385-ice-age-ukraine-and-europe-cave-bears-cave-lions-the-siberian-unicorn-and-mammoth-bone-houses.lesson:14 # text = The giant deer, often called the Irish elk, was not an elk and lived across Europe and Asia, but many of its best skeletons were dug out of Irish bogs; its antlers could be about three and a half metres wide, and males grew a new pair every year. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 385-ice-age-ukraine-and-europe-cave-bears-cave-lions-the-siberian-unicorn-and-mammoth-bone-houses.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 deer deer NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 often often ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 Irish Irish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 elk elk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obj 10 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 13 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 elk elk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 17 across across ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 Asia Asia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 23 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 nsubj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 27 amod _ _ 27 skeletons skeleton NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 28 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 dug dig VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 conj _ _ 30 out out ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 Irish Irish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 bogs bog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:nmod 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 antlers antler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 37 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 38 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 40 cop _ _ 39 about about ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 parataxis _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=44:det 43 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 44 compound _ _ 44 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 conj _ _ 45 wide wide ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 46 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 48 males male NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 nsubj _ _ 49 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 50 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 51 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 52 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obj _ _ 53 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 54 det _ _ 54 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl:unmarked _ _ 55 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | participle | the giant deer *not said here* | the Irish elk | | | | often *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **is a** | past | the giant deer | a elk | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **live** | past | the giant deer *not said here* | | | Europe and Asia | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **dig out** | past · passive | | many of deer's best skeletons | | Irish bogs | | | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary bog=Result | | 5 | **is** | could | deer's antlers | | | | | about three and half metres | tree rules | | 6 | **grow** | past | males | a new pair | | | year | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pair=Theme | 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:385-ice-age-ukraine-and-europe-cave-bears-cave-lions-the-siberian-unicorn-and-mammoth-bone-houses.lesson:14`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. 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