More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chameleon, electric eel, giraffe, sentence 17

A giraffe's tongue is about 45 to 50 cm long and dark blue-black, which may protect it from sunburn, though scientists are not certain; it wraps the tongue round acacia leaves to pull them from between the thorns.

Who acts: tongue, scientists, giraffe · What happens: be, protect, not be, wrap, pull · To what, where: giraffe, tongue, scientists

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 (tongue, scientists, giraffe), 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	4 tongue	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 giraffe	case
4	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 long	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 long	cop
6	about	about	ADV	_	7 45	advmod
7	45	45	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 cm	nummod
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 50	case
9	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 45	nmod
10	cm	cm	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 long	obl:unmarked
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 dark	cc
13	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 long	conj
14	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 black	amod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 blue	punct
16	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 long	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 protect	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 protect	nsubj
19	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 protect	aux
20	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 black	acl:relcl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 protect	obj
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 sunburn	case
23	sunburn	sunburn	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 protect	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 certain	punct
25	though	though	SCONJ	_	29 certain	mark
26	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 certain	nsubj
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 certain	cop
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 certain	advmod
29	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 protect	advcl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 wraps	punct
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 wraps	nsubj
32	wraps	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 long	parataxis
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 tongue	det
34	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 wraps	obj
35	round	round	ADP	_	37 leaves	case
36	acacia	acacia	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 leaves	compound
37	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 wraps	obl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 pull	mark
39	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 wraps	advcl
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 pull	obj
41	from	from	ADP	_	39 pull	obl
42	between	between	ADP	_	44 thorns	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 thorns	det
44	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 pull	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 long	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	a giraffe's tongue		45 cm obl:unmarked; long property	tree rules
2	be		a giraffe's tongue not said here			tree rules
3	be		a giraffe's tongue not said here			tree rules
4	protect	may		giraffe	from sunburn	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary from sunburn=Theme
5	not is	present	scientists		certain property	tree rules
6	wrap	present	giraffe	the tongue	round acacia leaves	tree rules
7	pull	to-infinitive	giraffe not said here	scientists = scientist	between the thorns	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:045-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe.lesson:17.

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 ×2. 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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