The African savanna area: giraffes, zebras, rhinos and antelopes, sentence 15

A baby giraffe is born by dropping about 2 metres to the ground, which is normal and safe for it, and it can stand within about an hour.

Who acts: ground · What happens: bear, drop, be, stand · To what, where: baby giraffe, 2 metres, ground

This is a sentence of the lesson «The African savanna area: giraffes, zebras, rhinos and antelopes» 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 (ground), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 giraffe	det
2	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 giraffe	compound
3	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 born	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 born	aux:pass
5	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 dropping	mark
7	dropping	drop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 born	advcl
8	about	about	ADV	_	9 2	advmod
9	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 metres	nummod
10	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dropping	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 ground	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ground	det
13	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dropping	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 normal	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 normal	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 normal	cop
17	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ground	acl:relcl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 safe	cc
19	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 normal	conj
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 safe	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 stand	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 stand	cc
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 stand	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 stand	aux
26	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 born	conj
27	within	within	ADP	_	30 hour	case
28	about	about	ADV	_	30 hour	advmod
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 hour	det
30	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stand	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 born	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	present · passive		a baby giraffe				vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	drop	gerund		2 metres	the ground			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent metre=Theme to ground=Destination
3	is	present	the ground				normal property	tree rules
4	be		the ground not said here				for ground	tree rules
5	stand	can	ground			hour		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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): no change. 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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