--- title: Melman's long neck has only seven bones, the same number as yours, e… — Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos an… · tree and pragmatics description: Melman's long neck has only seven bones, the same number as yours, each one just very long, and his dark tongue, longer than a school ruler, pulls leaves past sharp thorns. Who acts: long neck, dark tongue. 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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 (long neck, dark tongue), 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:3 # text = Melman's long neck has only seven bones, the same number as yours, each one just very long, and his dark tongue, longer than a school ruler, pulls leaves past sharp thorns. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Melman Melman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 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 _ 8 advmod _ _ 7 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 13 as as ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 yours your PRON PRP Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 17 det _ _ 17 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 18 just just ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 19 very very ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 advmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 longer long ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 amod _ _ 28 than than ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 ruler ruler NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 34 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 35 past past ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 thorns thorn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Melman's long neck | seven bones | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient | | 2 | **pull** | present | neck's dark tongue | leaves | | | | past sharp thorns | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=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. 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