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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 (Wild giraffes, getting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:390-how-animals-sleep-half-asleep-dolphins-standing-horses-short-sleeping-giraffes-and-birds-that-nap-in-the-air.lesson:11 # text = Wild giraffes sleep in short bits adding up to about half an hour to a few hours, often standing, because getting up takes them a long time. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 390-how-animals-sleep-half-asleep-dolphins-standing-horses-short-sleeping-giraffes-and-birds-that-nap-in-the-air.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 1 Wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 giraffes giraffe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sleep sleep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 bits bit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 adding add VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:acl 8 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 about about ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 13 det:predet _ _ 12 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 often often ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 standing stand VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 because because SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 csubj _ _ 24 up up ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl:unmarked _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sleep** | present | Wild giraffes | | | short bits | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bit=Location | | 2 | **add up** *speech: assert* | gerund | Wild giraffes *not said here* | | | | hour | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **stand** | gerund | Wild giraffes *not said here* | | | | | often *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **get up** | gerund | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **take** | present | getting | giraffes *= giraffe* | | | time | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:390-how-animals-sleep-half-asleep-dolphins-standing-horses-short-sleeping-giraffes-and-birds-that-nap-in-the-air.lesson:11`. **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. **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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