Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes, sentence 17

On the savanna, giraffes reach high leaves, zebras eat tough tall grass, and wildebeest eat the shorter grass left behind, and tall giraffes often spot lions first.

Who acts: giraffes, zebras, wildebeest, tall giraffes · What happens: reach, eat, leave behind, spot · To what, where: high leaves, savanna, tough tall grass, shorter grass, lions

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 (giraffes, zebras, wildebeest, tall giraffes), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 savanna	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 savanna	det
3	savanna	savanna	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reach	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 reach	punct
5	giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 reach	nsubj
6	reach	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 leaves	amod
8	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 reach	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 eat	punct
10	zebras	zebra	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 eat	nsubj
11	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 reach	conj
12	tough	tough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 grass	amod
13	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 grass	amod
14	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 eat	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 eat	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 eat	cc
17	wildebeest	wildebeest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 eat	nsubj
18	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 reach	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 grass	det
20	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 grass	amod
21	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 eat	obj
22	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 grass	acl
23	behind	behind	ADV	_	22 left	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 spot	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 spot	cc
26	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 giraffes	amod
27	giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 spot	nsubj
28	often	often	ADV	_	29 spot	advmod
29	spot	spot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 eat	conj
30	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 spot	obj
31	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	29 spot	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 reach	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	present	giraffes	high leaves		the savanna		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme
2	eat	present	zebras	tough tall grass				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient
3	eat	present	wildebeest	the shorter grass				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient
4	leave behind	participle		the shorter grass not said here			behind property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	spot	present	tall giraffes		lions		first, often property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent lion=Destination

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:17.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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