Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes, sentence 3

Melman's long neck has only seven bones, the same number as yours, each one just very long, and his dark tongue, longer than a school ruler, pulls leaves past sharp thorns.

Who acts: long neck, dark tongue · What happens: have, pull · To what, where: seven bones, 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 (long neck, 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	Melman	Melman	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 neck	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Melman	case
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 neck	amod
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	_	8 bones	advmod
7	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 bones	nummod
8	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 has	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 number	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 number	det
11	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 number	amod
12	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bones	appos
13	as	as	ADP	_	14 yours	case
14	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 number	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 one	punct
16	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	17 one	det
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bones	appos
18	just	just	ADV	_	20 long	advmod
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 long	advmod
20	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 one	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 pulls	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 pulls	cc
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 tongue	nmod:poss
24	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 tongue	amod
25	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 pulls	nsubj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 ruler	punct
27	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 tongue	amod
28	than	than	ADP	_	31 ruler	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 ruler	det
30	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ruler	compound
31	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 longer	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 pulls	punct
33	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 has	conj
34	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 pulls	obj
35	past	past	ADP	_	37 thorns	case
36	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 thorns	amod
37	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 pulls	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Melman's long neck	seven bones					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient
2	pull	present	neck's dark tongue	leaves				past sharp thorns	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:3.

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): 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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