--- title: To drink, a giraffe must splay its front legs and bend low, so it dr… — Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos an… · tree and pragmatics description: To drink, a giraffe must splay its front legs and bend low, so it drinks quickly, and it gets much of its water from leaves. Who acts: giraffe, hippo. 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 depende --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes/14/) [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/) / [Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes/) / 14 # Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes, sentence 14 To drink, a giraffe must splay its front legs and bend low, so it drinks quickly, and it gets much of its water from leaves. **Who acts:** giraffe, hippo · **What happens:** drink, splay, bend, get · **To what, where:** front legs, much, leaves 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 (giraffe, hippo), 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:14 # text = To drink, a giraffe must splay its front legs and bend low, so it drinks quickly, and it gets much of its water from leaves. # 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): R5-strong ×2 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 giraffe giraffe NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 splay splay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 bend bend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 13 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 drinks drink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 18 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 23 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 from from ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:obl 29 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drink** | to-infinitive | a giraffe *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **splay** | must | a giraffe | hippo's front legs | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | | 3 | **bend** | infinitive | a giraffe *not said here* | | | | | low *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **drink** | present | hippo | | | | | quickly *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **get** | present | hippo | much of hippo's water | | leaves | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent much=Theme from leaf=Source | 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:128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes.lesson:14`. **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): R5-strong ×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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