--- title: A giraffe has 7 neck bones, the same number as a mouse and a person;… — Evolution: why giraffes really have long necks · tree and pragmatics description: A giraffe has 7 neck bones, the same number as a mouse and a person; each bone is just very long, up to about 25 centimetres or more. Who acts: giraffe, bone. 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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, bone), 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:8 # text = A giraffe has 7 neck bones, the same number as a mouse and a person; each bone is just very long, up to about 25 centimetres or more. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×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 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 11 as as ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 18 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 19 det _ _ 19 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 just just ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 very very ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 up up ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 25 fixed _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:case 27 about about ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 25 25 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 centimetres centimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 30 or or CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 29 conj _ _ 32 . . 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 | **have** | present | a giraffe | 7 neck bones | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | each bone | | | | | 25 centimetres *obl*; long *property* | tree rules | 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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