The rainforest from below: understorey and forest floor, sentence 13

The okapi of the Congo rainforest is the giraffe's closest living relative, has zebra-like stripes on its legs and a long tongue that can reach its own ears.

Who acts: okapi, long tongue · What happens: be, have, reach · To what, where: closest living relative, like stripes, legs, own ears

This is a sentence of the lesson «The rainforest from below: understorey and forest floor» 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 (okapi, long 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 okapi	det
2	okapi	okapi	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 relative	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 rainforest	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rainforest	det
5	Congo	Congo	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 rainforest	compound
6	rainforest	rainforest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 okapi	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 relative	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 giraffe	det
9	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 relative	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 giraffe	case
11	closest	close	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 relative	amod
12	living	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 relative	amod
13	relative	relative	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 has	punct
15	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 living	parataxis
16	zebra	zebra	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 like	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 like	punct
18	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 stripes	amod
19	stripes	stripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 has	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 legs	case
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 legs	nmod:poss
22	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 stripes	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 tongue	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 tongue	det
25	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 tongue	amod
26	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stripes	conj
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 reach	nsubj
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 reach	aux
29	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 tongue	acl:relcl
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 ears	nmod:poss
31	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 ears	amod
32	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 reach	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 relative	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	the okapi of the Congo rainforest	the giraffe's closest living relative		tree rules
2	have	present		like stripes and a long tongue	okapi's legs	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stripe=Patient
3	reach	can	a long tongue	okapi's own ears		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=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:003-the-rainforest-from-below.lesson:13.

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, R8-pos-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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