--- title: The real answer: giraffe calves are born with slightly different nec… — Evolution: why giraffes really have long necks · tree and pragmatics description: The real answer: giraffe calves are born with slightly different neck lengths, and those with longer necks often got more food or won more fights, so they had more babies, who tended to have long necks too. Who acts: real answer, those, calves, more babies. 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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 (real answer, those, calves, more babies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:278-evolution-why-giraffes-really-have-long-necks.lesson:1 # text = The real answer: giraffe calves are born with slightly different neck lengths, and those with longer necks often got more food or won more fights, so they had more babies, who tended to have long necks too. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 278-evolution-why-giraffes-really-have-long-necks.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 5 giraffe giraffe NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 calves calf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl:relcl _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 slightly slightly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 lengths length NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 16 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 21 nsubj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 longer long ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 amod _ _ 19 necks neck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 20 often often ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 22 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 23 amod _ _ 23 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 won win VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 26 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 amod _ _ 27 fights fight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 32 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 33 amod _ _ 33 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 36 tended tend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:acl:relcl 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 necks neck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ _ 41 too too ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bear** | present · passive | the real answer *not said here* | giraffe calves | | | | with different neck lengths | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **get** | past | those | more food | | | | often *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus | | 3 | **win** | past | those *not said here* | more fights | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Eventuality | | 4 | **have** | past | calves *= calf* | more babies | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient | | 5 | **tend** | past | more babies | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **have** | to-infinitive | more babies *not said here* | long necks | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Patient | 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:278-evolution-why-giraffes-really-have-long-necks.lesson:1`. **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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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