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title: Cartoons such as Madagascar make the zebra and the giraffe chatty fr… — The African savanna area: giraffes, zebras, rhin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cartoons such as Madagascar make the zebra and the giraffe chatty friends of a lion, but on the real savanna a lion is the animal they watch for all day, and even a giraffe's neck has only seven bones, the same as yours. Who acts: Cartoons, lion, lions, neck. A sentence of the lesson «The African sa
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# The African savanna area: giraffes, zebras, rhinos and antelopes, sentence 3

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Cartoons such as Madagascar make the zebra and the giraffe chatty friends of a lion, but on the real savanna a lion is the animal they watch for all day, and even a giraffe's neck has only seven bones, the same as yours.

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**Who acts:** Cartoons, lion, lions, neck · **What happens:** make, be, watch, have · **To what, where:** zebra, animal, real savanna, seven bones

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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 (Cartoons, lion, lions, neck), 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:3
# text = Cartoons such as Madagascar make the zebra and the giraffe chatty friends of a lion, but on the real savanna a lion is the animal they watch for all day, and even a giraffe's neck has only seven bones, the same as yours.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	zebra	zebra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:det
10	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	chatty	chatty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=45:punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	savanna	savanna	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	watch	watch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:acl:relcl
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
34	even	even	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	's	's	PART	POS	_	36	case	_	_
38	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=26:conj
40	only	only	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	42	nummod	_	_
42	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
46	as	as	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	obl	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Cartoons such Madagascar | the zebra and giraffe chatty friends of a lion |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset zebra=Product |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a lion | the animal |  | the real savanna |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **watch** | present | lions *= lion* | the animal *not said here* |  |  | day |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present | a giraffe's neck | seven bones |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient |

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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.

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**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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