Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs, sentence 9
Humans and giraffes both have seven neck vertebrae; a giraffe's are each very long, and almost all mammals have seven.
Who acts: Humans, mammals · What happens: have · To what, where: seven neck vertebrae, seven
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs» 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 (Humans, mammals), 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 | Humans | human | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 giraffes | cc |
| 3 | giraffes | giraffe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Humans | conj |
| 4 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 have | advmod |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 vertebrae | nummod |
| 7 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 vertebrae | compound |
| 8 | vertebrae | vertebra | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 each | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 giraffe | det |
| 11 | giraffe | giraffe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 each | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 giraffe | case |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 each | cop |
| 14 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 have | parataxis |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 long | advmod |
| 16 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 each | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 have | cc |
| 19 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 20 all | advmod |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 mammals | det |
| 21 | mammals | mammal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 have | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | conj |
| 23 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 have | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | 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 | Humans and giraffes | seven neck vertebrae | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vertebra=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | present | all mammals | seven | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seven=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:357-bones-by-name-the-skull-jaw-spine-and-ribs.lesson:9.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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