Evolution: why giraffes really have long necks, sentence 8
A giraffe has 7 neck bones, the same number as a mouse and a person; each bone is just very long, up to about 25 centimetres or more.
Who acts: giraffe, bone · What happens: have, be · To what, where: 7 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 (giraffe, bone), 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 | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 bones | nummod |
| 5 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bones | compound |
| 6 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 number | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 number | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 number | amod |
| 10 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bones | appos |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 mouse | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 mouse | det |
| 13 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 number | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 person | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 person | det |
| 16 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mouse | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 long | punct |
| 18 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 bone | det |
| 19 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 long | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 long | cop |
| 21 | just | just | ADV | _ | 23 long | advmod |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 long | advmod |
| 23 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 has | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 centimetres | punct |
| 25 | up | up | ADV | _ | 29 centimetres | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 up | fixed |
| 27 | about | about | ADV | _ | 28 25 | advmod |
| 28 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 centimetres | nummod |
| 29 | centimetres | centimetre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 long | obl |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 31 more | cc |
| 31 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 centimetres | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a giraffe | 7 neck bones | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | each bone | 25 centimetres obl; long property | tree rules |
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:8.
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, 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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