Viral facts and chain messages, sentence 11
Humans and giraffes really do have the same number of neck bones: seven, like most mammals; giraffes' are just much longer.
Who acts: Humans, giraffes · What happens: have, be · To what, where: same number
This is a sentence of the lesson «Viral facts and chain messages» of the myths 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, 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 | Humans | human | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 have | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 giraffes | cc |
| 3 | giraffes | giraffe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Humans | conj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 have | advmod |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 have | aux |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 number | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 number | amod |
| 9 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 bones | case |
| 11 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bones | compound |
| 12 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 number | nmod |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 seven | punct |
| 14 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 have | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 mammals | punct |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 mammals | case |
| 17 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 mammals | amod |
| 18 | mammals | mammal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 have | parataxis |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 20 | giraffes | giraffe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 longer | nsubj |
| 21 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 20 giraffes | case |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 longer | cop |
| 23 | just | just | ADV | _ | 24 much | advmod |
| 24 | much | much | ADV | _ | 25 longer | advmod |
| 25 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 have | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · do-support | Humans and giraffes | the same number of neck bones | seven obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | present | giraffes | long property | 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:myths:025-viral-facts-and-chain-messages.lesson:11.
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): 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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