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title: A giraffe's neck has only seven bones, like almost all mammals, and… — Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos an… · tree and pragmatics
description: A giraffe's neck has only seven bones, like almost all mammals, and its heart weighs about 11 kilograms to push blood up to its head. Who acts: neck, heart. A sentence of the lesson «Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its d
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# Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes, sentence 13

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A giraffe's neck has only seven bones, like almost all mammals, and its heart weighs about 11 kilograms to push blood up to its head.

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**Who acts:** neck, heart · **What happens:** have, weigh, push up · **To what, where:** seven bones, 11 kilograms, blood, head

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes» 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 (neck, heart), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes.lesson:13
# text = A giraffe's neck has only seven bones, like almost all mammals, and its heart weighs about 11 kilograms to push blood up to its head.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes.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): R2-punct-next ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	mammals	mammal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	weighs	weigh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	about	about	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
24	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	.	.	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 | **have** | present | a giraffe's neck | seven bones |  |  |  | like all mammals | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient |
| 2 | **weigh** | present | hippo's heart | 11 kilograms |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kilogram=Value |
| 3 | **push up** | to-infinitive | hippo's heart *not said here* | blood |  | hippo's head |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent blood=Theme to head=Trajectory |

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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): R2-punct-next ×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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