--- title: DNA studies suggest there may be four species of giraffe, not one, w… — DNA simply: the recipe in every cell · tree and pragmatics description: DNA studies suggest there may be four species of giraffe, not one, which matters for protecting each kind; scientists still debate how many there are. Who acts: DNA studies, four species, scientists, many. 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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 (DNA studies, four species, scientists, many), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:277-dna-simply-the-recipe-in-every-cell.lesson:17 # text = DNA studies suggest there may be four species of giraffe, not one, which matters for protecting each kind; scientists still debate how many there are. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 277-dna-simply-the-recipe-in-every-cell.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 ×4 1 DNA DNA NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 studies study NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 suggest suggest VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 there there PRON EX _ 6 expl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:expl 5 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:aux 6 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:cop|HaikuPos=AUX:VB:VerbForm=Inf 7 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 species species NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:ccomp 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 giraffe giraffe NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 appos _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 matters matter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 17 for for SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 18 protecting protect VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 19 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 20 det _ _ 20 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 22 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 23 still still ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 debate debate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 25 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 26 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 nsubj _ _ 27 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 28 expl _ _ 28 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 ccomp _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - hedged: yes - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present | DNA studies | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **be** | may | four species of giraffe | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **matter** | present | | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **protect** | gerund | | each kind | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Beneficiary | | 5 | **debate** | present | scientists | | | | still | | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **be** | present | many | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «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:277-dna-simply-the-recipe-in-every-cell.lesson:17`. **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 ×4. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [DNA simply: the recipe in every cell, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/277-dna-simply-the-recipe-in-every-cell/16/) - next →: [Evolution: why giraffes really have lo…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/278-evolution-why-giraffes-really-have-long-necks/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/277-dna-simply-the-recipe-in-every-cell/)