Evolution: why giraffes really have long necks, sentence 4

It also changes what is already there instead of starting fresh, so a giraffe has the same seven neck bones as you and a mouse, only much longer.

Who acts: selection, giraffe · What happens: change, be, start, have · To what, where: same seven neck bones

This is a sentence of the lesson «Evolution: why giraffes really have long necks» 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 (selection, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 changes	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	3 changes	advmod
3	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 changes	obj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 there	cop
6	already	already	ADV	_	7 there	advmod
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 what	acl:relcl
8	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	10 starting	mark
9	of	of	ADP	_	8 instead	fixed
10	starting	start	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 changes	advcl
11	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 starting	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 has	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	16 has	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 giraffe	det
15	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 has	nsubj
16	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 changes	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bones	det
18	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 bones	amod
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	16 has	obj
22	as	as	ADP	_	23 you	case
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 bones	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 mouse	cc
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 mouse	det
26	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 you	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 changes	punct
28	only	only	ADV	_	29 much	advmod
29	much	much	ADV	_	30 longer	advmod
30	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 has	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 changes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	change	present	selection			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
2	is	present			there property	tree rules
3	start	gerund	selection not said here		fresh property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	have	present	a giraffe	the same seven neck bones	as you; long property	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:278-evolution-why-giraffes-really-have-long-necks.lesson:4.

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): R7-rel-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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