--- title: Picture a giraffe drinking: it has to spread its front legs wide lik… — The African savanna area: giraffes, zebras, rhin… · tree and pragmatics description: Picture a giraffe drinking: it has to spread its front legs wide like a clumsy tripod to reach the water, and that is the moment a lion likes best, so in the wild giraffes drink only now and then. Who acts: you, giraffe, animal, that. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, giraffe, animal, that), 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:2 # text = Picture a giraffe drinking: it has to spread its front legs wide like a clumsy tripod to reach the water, and that is the moment a lion likes best, so in the wild giraffes drink only now and then. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 giraffe giraffe NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 drinking drink VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 spread spread VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 13 wide wide ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 14 like like ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 clumsy clumsy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 tripod tripod NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 acl _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 27 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:parataxis 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 likes like VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 31 best well ADV RBS Degree=Sup 30 advmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 33 so so ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 giraffes giraffe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 38 drink drink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 39 only only ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:advmod 40 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 38 advmod _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 40 conj _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a giraffe | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent giraffe=Theme | | 2 | **drink** | gerund | a giraffe *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **have** | present | animal | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **spread** | to-infinitive | animal *not said here* | animal's front legs | | | | like a clumsy tripod | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leg=Theme | | 5 | **reach** | to-infinitive | animal *not said here* | the water | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent water=Theme | | 6 | **is a** | present | that | the moment | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **like** | present | a lion | the moment *not said here* | | | | well *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot moment=Theme | | 8 | **drink** | present | the wild giraffes | | | | now | | vn eat-39.1-1 «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:2`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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