--- title: Every animal has its own floor in the savanna kitchen: the giraffe b… — The savanna: grass, trees and the great herds · tree and pragmatics description: Every animal has its own floor in the savanna kitchen: the giraffe browses at treetop height, the elephant lower down, the zebra on the grass and the meerkat digs for beetles underneath. Who acts: animal, giraffe, meerkat. 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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 (animal, giraffe, meerkat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:004-the-savanna.lesson:2 # text = Every animal has its own floor in the savanna kitchen: the giraffe browses at treetop height, the elephant lower down, the zebra on the grass and the meerkat digs for beetles underneath. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 004-the-savanna.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 savanna savanna NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 11 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:det 13 giraffe giraffe NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:compound 14 browses browse VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 treetop treetop NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 height height NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 21 lower low ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 amod _ _ 22 down down ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 zebra zebra NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 meerkat meerkat NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 digs dig VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 beetles beetle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 35 underneath underneath ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 36 . . 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 | every animal | animal's own floor | | the savanna kitchen | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent floor=Patient | | 2 | **browse** | present | the giraffe | | | treetop height | | | tree rules | | 3 | **dig** | present | the meerkat | the zebra on the grass *not said here* | | | | for beetles; underneath *property* | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent zebra=Result for beetle=Beneficiary | 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:004-the-savanna.lesson:2`. **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 ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The savanna: grass, trees and the grea…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/4-the-savanna/1/) - next →: [The savanna: grass, trees and the grea…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/4-the-savanna/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/4-the-savanna/)