--- title: Zoo giraffes feed from baskets and nets hung high, as wild giraffes… — The African savanna area: giraffes, zebras, rhin… · tree and pragmatics description: Zoo giraffes feed from baskets and nets hung high, as wild giraffes feed from tall acacia trees, and a giraffe's neck has seven very long bones, called vertebrae, the same number as a person's neck. Who acts: Zoo giraffes, wild giraffes, neck. 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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 (Zoo giraffes, wild giraffes, 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:4 # text = Zoo giraffes feed from baskets and nets hung high, as wild giraffes feed from tall acacia trees, and a giraffe's neck has seven very long bones, called vertebrae, the same number as a person's neck. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Zoo zoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 giraffes giraffe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 feed feed VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 baskets basket NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 nets net NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 8 hung hung ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 as as SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 giraffes giraffe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 feed feed VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 acacia acacia NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 giraffe giraffe NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 's 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 26 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 27 very very ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 acl _ _ 32 vertebrae vertebra NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 appos _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:conj 37 as as ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod:poss _ _ 40 's 's PART POS _ 39 case _ _ 41 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feed** | present | Zoo giraffes | | | baskets and nets | | | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **feed** | present | wild giraffes | | | tall acacia trees | | | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **have** | present | a giraffe's neck | seven long bones | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient | | 4 | **call** | participle | | vertebrae *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «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:4`. **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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