Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest, sentence 12

The giraffe is the tallest animal on Earth, reaches food other animals cannot, and has seven neck bones, the same number as a person.

Who acts: giraffe · What happens: be, reach, have · To what, where: tallest animal, Earth, food, seven neck bones

This is a sentence of the lesson «Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest» 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), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giraffe	det
2	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reaches	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 animal	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 animal	det
5	tallest	tall	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 animal	amod
6	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reaches	conj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 Earth	case
8	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 animal	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 reaches	punct
10	reaches	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reaches	obj
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 animals	amod
13	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 can	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 food	acl:relcl
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 can	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 has	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 has	cc
18	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 reaches	conj
19	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 bones	nummod
20	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bones	compound
21	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 has	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 number	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 number	det
24	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 number	amod
25	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bones	appos
26	as	as	ADP	_	28 person	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 person	det
28	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 number	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 reaches	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	the giraffe not said here	the tallest animal	Earth	tree rules
2	reach	present	the giraffe	food		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent food=Theme
3	have	present	the giraffe not said here	seven neck bones		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient

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:186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest.lesson:12.

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 ×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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