Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes, sentence 14

To drink, a giraffe must splay its front legs and bend low, so it drinks quickly, and it gets much of its water from leaves.

Who acts: giraffe, hippo · What happens: drink, splay, bend, get · To what, where: front legs, much, leaves

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 (giraffe, hippo), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 drink	mark
2	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 splay	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 splay	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 giraffe	det
5	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 splay	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 splay	aux
7	splay	splay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 legs	nmod:poss
9	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 legs	amod
10	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 splay	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 bend	cc
12	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 splay	conj
13	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bend	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 drinks	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	17 drinks	advmod
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 drinks	nsubj
17	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 splay	conj
18	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	17 drinks	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 gets	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 gets	cc
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 gets	nsubj
22	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 drinks	conj
23	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 gets	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 water	case
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 water	nmod:poss
26	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 much	nmod
27	from	from	ADP	_	28 leaves	case
28	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 gets	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 splay	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drink	to-infinitive	a giraffe not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	splay	must	a giraffe	hippo's front legs			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
3	bend	infinitive	a giraffe not said here			low property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	drink	present	hippo			quickly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	get	present	hippo	much of hippo's water	leaves		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent much=Theme from leaf=Source

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: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 ×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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