The African savanna area: giraffes, zebras, rhinos and antelopes, sentence 4
Zoo giraffes feed from baskets and nets hung high, as wild giraffes feed from tall acacia trees, and a giraffe's neck has seven very long bones, called vertebrae, the same number as a person's neck.
Who acts: Zoo giraffes, wild giraffes, neck · What happens: feed, have, call · To what, where: baskets, tall acacia trees, seven long bones, vertebrae · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Zoo giraffes, wild giraffes, neck), 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 | Zoo | zoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 giraffes | compound |
| 2 | giraffes | giraffe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 feed | nsubj |
| 3 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 baskets | case |
| 5 | baskets | basket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 feed | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 nets | cc |
| 7 | nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 baskets | conj |
| 8 | hung | hung | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 high | amod |
| 9 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 baskets | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 feed | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 feed | mark |
| 12 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 giraffes | amod |
| 13 | giraffes | giraffe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 feed | nsubj |
| 14 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 feed | conj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 trees | case |
| 16 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 trees | amod |
| 17 | acacia | acacia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 trees | compound |
| 18 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 feed | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 has | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 has | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 giraffe | det |
| 22 | giraffe | giraffe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 neck | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 giraffe | case |
| 24 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 has | nsubj |
| 25 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 feed | conj |
| 26 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 bones | nummod |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 long | advmod |
| 28 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 bones | amod |
| 29 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 has | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 vertebrae | punct |
| 31 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 vertebrae | acl |
| 32 | vertebrae | vertebra | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 bones | appos |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 number | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 number | det |
| 35 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 number | amod |
| 36 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bones | appos |
| 37 | as | as | ADP | _ | 41 neck | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 person | det |
| 39 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 neck | nmod:poss |
| 40 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 39 person | case |
| 41 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 number | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 feed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | present | Zoo giraffes | baskets and nets | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | feed | present | wild giraffes | tall acacia trees | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | have | present | a giraffe's neck | seven long bones | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient | ||||
| 4 | call | participle | vertebrae not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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:4.
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): R7-rel-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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