Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes, sentence 15

A giraffe's dark tongue is about 45 to 50 centimetres long and pulls leaves past the thorns of acacia trees.

Who acts: dark tongue · What happens: be, pull · To what, where: 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 (dark tongue), 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	5 tongue	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 giraffe	case
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tongue	amod
5	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 long	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 long	cop
7	about	about	ADV	_	8 45	advmod
8	45	45	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 centimetres	nummod
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 50	case
10	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 45	nmod
11	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 long	obl:unmarked
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 pulls	cc
14	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 long	conj
15	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 pulls	obj
16	past	past	ADP	_	18 thorns	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 thorns	det
18	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 pulls	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 trees	case
20	acacia	acacia	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 trees	compound
21	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 thorns	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 long	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a giraffe's dark tongue					45 centimetres obl:unmarked; long property	tree rules
2	pull	present	a giraffe's dark tongue not said here	leaves				past the thorns of acacia trees	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme

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:15.

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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