--- title: Giraffes with slightly longer necks reached more food and won more f… — The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evoluti… · tree and pragmatics description: Giraffes with slightly longer necks reached more food and won more fights, so they had more young, and over many generations necks grew longer; this is natural selection, and stretching your neck does not change what you pass on. Who acts: longer necks, fights, necks, this. 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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 (longer necks, fights, necks, this), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:300-the-big-biology-quiz-part-3-dinosaurs-evolution-conservation-and-food.lesson:13 # text = Giraffes with slightly longer necks reached more food and won more fights, so they had more young, and over many generations necks grew longer; this is natural selection, and stretching your neck does not change what you pass on. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 300-the-big-biology-quiz-part-3-dinosaurs-evolution-conservation-and-food.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Giraffes giraffe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 2 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 slightly slightly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 longer long ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 amod _ _ 5 necks neck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 6 reached reach VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 amod _ _ 8 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 won win VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj 11 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 amod _ _ 12 fights fight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 17 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 obj _ _ 18 young young NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 over over ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 generations generation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl:unmarked _ _ 24 necks neck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 26 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 25 advmod _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 28 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 natural natural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 selection selection NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=31:punct 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 34 stretching stretch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 39 csubj _ _ 35 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 39 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 40 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 42 obj _ _ 41 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 pass pass VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 ccomp _ _ 43 on on ADP RP _ 42 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=42:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reach** | participle | longer necks *not said here* | more food | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent food=Theme | | 2 | **win** | past | longer necks *not said here* | more fights | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Eventuality | | 3 | **have** | past | fights *= fight* | more young | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient | | 4 | **grow** | past | necks | many generations | | | | long *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | this | natural selection | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **stretch** | gerund | | your neck | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent neck=Patient | | 7 | **not** **change** | present · do-support | stretching | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **pass on** | present | you | | | | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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:300-the-big-biology-quiz-part-3-dinosaurs-evolution-conservation-and-food.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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