--- title: A giraffe has 7 neck bones and a sauropod had 12 to 19; unrelated an… — The long-necked giants: Diplodocus, Brachiosauru… · tree and pragmatics description: A giraffe has 7 neck bones and a sauropod had 12 to 19; unrelated animals finding the same answer to reaching high food is called convergence. Who acts: giraffe, sauropod. 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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 (giraffe, sauropod), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:266-the-long-necked-giants-sauropods.lesson:15 # text = A giraffe has 7 neck bones and a sauropod had 12 to 19; unrelated animals finding the same answer to reaching high food is called convergence. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 266-the-long-necked-giants-sauropods.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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 giraffe giraffe NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 5 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 sauropod sauropod NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 obj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 19 19 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nmod _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 unrelated unrelated ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nsubj 17 finding find VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 csubj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 to to SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 22 reaching reach VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 acl _ _ 23 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 27 convergence convergence NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 xcomp _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **have** | present | a giraffe | 7 neck bones | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient | | 2 | **have** | past | a sauropod | 12 | | | | to 19 | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 12=Patient | | 3 | **find** | gerund | | the same answer | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Topic | | 4 | **reach** | gerund | | high food | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent food=Theme | | 5 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | unrelated animals | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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. 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