--- title: Zebras often rest side by side facing different ways, so many eyes w… — The African savanna area: giraffes, zebras, rhin… · tree and pragmatics description: Zebras often rest side by side facing different ways, so many eyes watch in every direction for lions, and scientists have found that stripes seem to confuse biting flies. Who acts: Zebras, many eyes, scientists, stripes. 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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 (Zebras, many eyes, scientists, stripes), 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:7 # text = Zebras often rest side by side facing different ways, so many eyes watch in every direction for lions, and scientists have found that stripes seem to confuse biting flies. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Zebras zebra NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 often often ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod 3 rest rest VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 5 by by ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 facing face VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 8 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod 12 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 watch watch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 17 det _ _ 17 direction direction NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 lions lion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 23 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj 25 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 stripes stripe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 seem seem VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 ccomp _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 confuse confuse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 biting bite VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 amod _ _ 31 flies fly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 32 . . 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 | **rest** | present | Zebras | side by side | | | | often *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **face** | gerund | Zebras *not said here* | different ways | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Destination | | 3 | **watch** | present | many eyes | | | every direction | | for lions | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent in direction=Location for lion=Theme | | 4 | **find** | present · perfect | scientists | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **seem** | present | stripes | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 6 | **confuse** | to-infinitive | stripes *not said here* | biting flies | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Patient | | 7 | **bite** | gerund | | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: 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:7`. **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 ×3, 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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