--- title: An ostrich's eye is about 5 centimetres across, bigger than its brai… — The African savanna area: hippos, meerkats, ostr… · tree and pragmatics description: An ostrich's eye is about 5 centimetres across, bigger than its brain, and it has only two toes on each foot, which helps it run fast. Who acts: eye, ostrich, two toes. A sentence of the lesson «The African savanna area: hippos, meerkats, ostriches, wild dogs and hyenas» of the biology course of Mov --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches/12/) [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: hippos, meer…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches/) / 12 # The African savanna area: hippos, meerkats, ostriches, wild dogs and hyenas, sentence 12 An ostrich's eye is about 5 centimetres across, bigger than its brain, and it has only two toes on each foot, which helps it run fast. **Who acts:** eye, ostrich, two toes · **What happens:** be, have, help, run · **To what, where:** 5 centimetres, two toes, foot, ostrich This is a sentence of the lesson «The African savanna area: hippos, meerkats, ostriches, wild dogs and hyenas» 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 (eye, ostrich, two toes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches.lesson:12 # text = An ostrich's eye is about 5 centimetres across, bigger than its brain, and it has only two toes on each foot, which helps it run fast. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches.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 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 ostrich ostrich NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 about about ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 centimetres centimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 9 across across ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 amod _ _ 12 than than ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 19 only only ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 toes toe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 24 det _ _ 24 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 29 advmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a ostrich's eye | 5 centimetres | | | | across *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | present | ostrich | two toes | | each foot | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Patient | | 3 | **help** | present | two toes | ostrich | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 4 | **run** | infinitive | ostrich *not said here* | | | | | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches.lesson:12`. **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. 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