The savanna: grass, trees and the great herds, sentence 6

Giraffes are the tallest animals, up to about 5.5 metres, with a tongue about 45 cm long and just 7 neck bones, the same number as us, each over 25 cm long.

Who acts: Giraffes · What happens: be · To what, where: tallest animals

This is a sentence of the lesson «The savanna: grass, trees and the great herds» 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 (Giraffes), 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	Giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 animals	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 animals	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 animals	det
4	tallest	tall	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 animals	amod
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 metres	punct
7	up	up	ADP	_	11 metres	case
8	to	to	ADP	_	7 up	fixed
9	about	about	ADV	_	10 5.5	advmod
10	5.5	5.5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 metres	nummod
11	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 animals	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tongue	punct
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 tongue	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 tongue	det
15	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 metres	nmod
16	about	about	ADV	_	17 45	advmod
17	45	45	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 cm	nummod
18	cm	cm	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 long	obl:unmarked
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tongue	amod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 bones	cc
21	just	just	ADV	_	24 bones	advmod
22	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 bones	nummod
23	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bones	compound
24	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 tongue	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 number	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 number	det
27	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 number	amod
28	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bones	appos
29	as	as	ADP	_	30 us	case
30	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 number	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 cm	punct
32	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	35 cm	det
33	over	over	ADV	_	34 25	advmod
34	25	25	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	35 cm	nummod
35	cm	cm	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 long	obl
36	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 metres	amod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 animals	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Giraffes	the tallest animals				up 5.5 metres with a tongue and 7 neck bones	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:004-the-savanna.lesson:6.

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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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