--- title: A baby giraffe is born by dropping about 2 metres to the ground, whi… — The African savanna area: giraffes, zebras, rhin… · tree and pragmatics description: A baby giraffe is born by dropping about 2 metres to the ground, which is normal and safe for it, and it can stand within about an hour. Who acts: ground. A sentence of the lesson «The African savanna area: giraffes, zebras, rhinos and antelopes» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with i --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/101-the-african-savanna-area-giraffes-zebras-rhinos/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The African savanna area: giraffes, ze…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/101-the-african-savanna-area-giraffes-zebras-rhinos/) / 15 # The African savanna area: giraffes, zebras, rhinos and antelopes, sentence 15 A baby giraffe is born by dropping about 2 metres to the ground, which is normal and safe for it, and it can stand within about an hour. **Who acts:** ground · **What happens:** bear, drop, be, stand · **To what, where:** baby giraffe, 2 metres, ground This is a sentence of the lesson «The African savanna area: giraffes, zebras, rhinos and antelopes» 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 (ground), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:101-the-african-savanna-area-giraffes-zebras-rhinos.lesson:15 # text = A baby giraffe is born by dropping about 2 metres to the ground, which is normal and safe for it, and it can stand within about an hour. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 101-the-african-savanna-area-giraffes-zebras-rhinos.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 giraffe giraffe NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 by by SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 dropping drop VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 8 about about ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 acl:relcl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 conj _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 27 within within ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 about about ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bear** | present · passive | | a baby giraffe | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **drop** | gerund | | 2 metres | | the ground | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent metre=Theme to ground=Destination | | 3 | **is** | present | the ground | | | | | normal *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | the ground *not said here* | | | | | for ground | tree rules | | 5 | **stand** | can | ground | | | | hour | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:101-the-african-savanna-area-giraffes-zebras-rhinos.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): no change. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The African savanna area: giraffes, ze…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/101-the-african-savanna-area-giraffes-zebras-rhinos/14/) - next →: [The African savanna area: hippos, meer…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/101-the-african-savanna-area-giraffes-zebras-rhinos/)