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title: Humans and giraffes both have seven neck vertebrae; a giraffe's are… — Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs · tree and pragmatics
description: Humans and giraffes both have seven neck vertebrae; a giraffe's are each very long, and almost all mammals have seven. Who acts: Humans, mammals. A sentence of the lesson «Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p
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# Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs, sentence 9

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Humans and giraffes both have seven neck vertebrae; a giraffe's are each very long, and almost all mammals have seven.

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**Who acts:** Humans, mammals · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** seven neck vertebrae, seven

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Humans, mammals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:357-bones-by-name-the-skull-jaw-spine-and-ribs.lesson:9
# text = Humans and giraffes both have seven neck vertebrae; a giraffe's are each very long, and almost all mammals have seven.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 357-bones-by-name-the-skull-jaw-spine-and-ribs.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
1	Humans	human	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	vertebrae	vertebra	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	_
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	parataxis	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	mammals	mammal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Humans and giraffes | seven neck vertebrae |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vertebra=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | all mammals | seven |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seven=Patient |

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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.

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**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. **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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