More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chameleon, electric eel, giraffe, sentence 15

A giraffe has 7 neck bones like almost all mammals, each up to about 25 cm long; sloths and manatees are among the few mammals with a different number.

Who acts: giraffe, sloths · What happens: have, be · To what, where: 7 neck bones

This is a sentence of the lesson «More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chameleon, electric eel, giraffe» 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, sloths), 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	like	like	ADP	_	10 mammals	case
8	almost	almost	ADV	_	10 mammals	advmod
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 mammals	det
10	mammals	mammal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bones	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 each	punct
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 mammals	appos
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 each	compound:prt
14	to	to	ADP	_	18 long	case
15	about	about	ADV	_	16 25	advmod
16	25	25	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 cm	nummod
17	cm	cm	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 long	obl:unmarked
18	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 each	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 mammals	punct
20	sloths	sloth	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 mammals	nsubj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 manatees	cc
22	manatees	manatee	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 sloths	conj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 mammals	cop
24	among	among	ADP	_	27 mammals	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 mammals	det
26	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 mammals	amod
27	mammals	mammal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	parataxis
28	with	with	ADP	_	31 number	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 number	det
30	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 number	amod
31	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 mammals	nmod
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				like all mammals	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient
2	is	present	sloths and manatees					among the few mammals; with a different number	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:045-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe.lesson:15.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×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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