The African savanna area: giraffes, zebras, rhinos and antelopes, sentence 2

Picture a giraffe drinking: it has to spread its front legs wide like a clumsy tripod to reach the water, and that is the moment a lion likes best, so in the wild giraffes drink only now and then.

Who acts: you, giraffe, animal, that, lion, wild giraffes · What happens: picture, drink, have, spread, reach, be · To what, where: giraffe, front legs, water, moment

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 (you, giraffe, animal, that), 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	Picture	picture	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 giraffe	det
3	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	obj
4	drinking	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 giraffe	acl
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 has	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 has	nsubj
7	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 drinking	parataxis
8	to	to	PART	_	9 spread	mark
9	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 has	xcomp
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 legs	nmod:poss
11	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 legs	amod
12	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 spread	obj
13	wide	wide	ADV	_	17 tripod	advmod
14	like	like	ADP	_	17 tripod	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 tripod	det
16	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 tripod	amod
17	tripod	tripod	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spread	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 reach	mark
19	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 tripod	acl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 water	det
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 reach	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 moment	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 moment	cc
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 moment	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 moment	cop
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 moment	det
27	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 lion	det
29	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 likes	nsubj
30	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 moment	acl:relcl
31	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	30 likes	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 drink	punct
33	so	so	ADV	_	38 drink	advmod
34	in	in	ADP	_	37 giraffes	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 giraffes	det
36	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 giraffes	amod
37	giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 drink	nsubj
38	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Picture	parataxis
39	only	only	ADV	_	40 now	advmod
40	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 drink	advmod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 then	cc
42	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 now	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	picture	imperative	you not said here	a giraffe			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent giraffe=Theme
2	drink	gerund	a giraffe not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	present	animal				tree rules
4	spread	to-infinitive	animal not said here	animal's front legs		like a clumsy tripod	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leg=Theme
5	reach	to-infinitive	animal not said here	the water			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent water=Theme
6	is a	present	that	the moment			tree rules
7	like	present	a lion	the moment not said here		well property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot moment=Theme
8	drink	present	the wild giraffes		now		vn eat-39.1-1 «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.

Licence: CC 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:101-the-african-savanna-area-giraffes-zebras-rhinos.lesson:2.

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 ×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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