Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes, sentence 13

A giraffe's neck has only seven bones, like almost all mammals, and its heart weighs about 11 kilograms to push blood up to its head.

Who acts: neck, heart · What happens: have, weigh, push up · To what, where: seven bones, 11 kilograms, blood, head

This is a sentence of the lesson «Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes» 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 (neck, heart), 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	2 giraffe	det
2	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 neck	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 giraffe	case
4	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 seven	advmod
7	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 bones	nummod
8	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 has	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mammals	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 mammals	case
11	almost	almost	ADV	_	13 mammals	advmod
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 mammals	det
13	mammals	mammal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bones	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 weighs	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 weighs	cc
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 heart	nmod:poss
17	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 weighs	nsubj
18	weighs	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 has	conj
19	about	about	ADV	_	20 11	advmod
20	11	11	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 kilograms	nummod
21	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 weighs	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 push	mark
23	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 weighs	advcl
24	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 push	obj
25	up	up	ADP	_	23 push	compound:prt
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 head	case
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 head	nmod:poss
28	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 push	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	a giraffe's neck	seven bones		like all mammals	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient
2	weigh	present	hippo's heart	11 kilograms			vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kilogram=Value
3	push up	to-infinitive	hippo's heart not said here	blood	hippo's head		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent blood=Theme to head=Trajectory

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:128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes.lesson:13.

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): R2-punct-next ×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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