--- title: It also changes what is already there instead of starting fresh, so… — Evolution: why giraffes really have long necks · tree and pragmatics description: It also changes what is already there instead of starting fresh, so a giraffe has the same seven neck bones as you and a mouse, only much longer. Who acts: selection, giraffe. 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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 (selection, giraffe), 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:4 # text = It also changes what is already there instead of starting fresh, so a giraffe has the same seven neck bones as you and a mouse, only much longer. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 also also ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 obj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 already already ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 acl:relcl _ _ 8 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 10 mark _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 8 fixed _ _ 10 starting start VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 11 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 giraffe giraffe NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 18 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 19 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 20 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 22 as as ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nmod _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 28 only only ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 much much ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 16 advmod _ _ 31 . . 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 | **change** | present | selection | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | | there *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **start** | gerund | selection *not said here* | | | | | fresh *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **have** | present | a giraffe | the same seven neck bones | | | | as you; long *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=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:4`. **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): R7-rel-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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