--- title: The okapi of the Congo rainforest is the giraffe's closest living re… — The rainforest from below: understorey and fores… · tree and pragmatics description: The okapi of the Congo rainforest is the giraffe's closest living relative, has zebra-like stripes on its legs and a long tongue that can reach its own ears. Who acts: okapi, long tongue. 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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 (okapi, long tongue), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:003-the-rainforest-from-below.lesson:13 # text = The okapi of the Congo rainforest is the giraffe's closest living relative, has zebra-like stripes on its legs and a long tongue that can reach its own ears. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 003-the-rainforest-from-below.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 2 det _ _ 2 okapi okapi NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 Congo Congo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 rainforest rainforest NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 giraffe giraffe NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 closest close ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 13 amod _ _ 12 living live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 relative relative NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 16 zebra zebra NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ _ 18 like like ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 stripes stripe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:conj 27 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 28 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 acl:relcl _ _ 30 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the okapi of the Congo rainforest | the giraffe's closest living relative | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | present | | like stripes and a long tongue | | okapi's legs | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stripe=Patient | | 3 | **reach** | can | a long tongue | okapi's own ears | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=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:003-the-rainforest-from-below.lesson:13`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The rainforest from below: understorey…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/3-the-rainforest-from-below/12/) - next →: [The rainforest from below: understorey…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/3-the-rainforest-from-below/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/3-the-rainforest-from-below/)