--- title: Giraffes are the tallest animals, up to about 5.5 metres, with a ton… — The savanna: grass, trees and the great herds · tree and pragmatics description: Giraffes are the tallest animals, up to about 5.5 metres, with a tongue about 45 cm long and just 7 neck bones, the same number as us, each over 25 cm long. Who acts: Giraffes. 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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 (Giraffes), 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:6 # text = Giraffes are the tallest animals, up to about 5.5 metres, with a tongue about 45 cm long and just 7 neck bones, the same number as us, each over 25 cm long. # 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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Giraffes giraffe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 tallest tall ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 amod _ _ 5 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 up up ADP IN _ 11 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 8 to to ADP IN _ 7 fixed _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:case 9 about about ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 5.5 5.5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nmod 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 16 about about ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 45 45 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 cm cm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl:unmarked _ _ 19 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:acl:relcl 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 just just ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 22 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 23 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:conj 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj 29 as as ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 35 det _ _ 33 over over ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 25 25 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 cm cm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj 36 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | Giraffes | the tallest animals | | | | up 5.5 metres with a tongue and 7 neck bones | tree rules | 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:6`. **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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/4-the-savanna/5/) - next →: [The savanna: grass, trees and the grea…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/4-the-savanna/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/4-the-savanna/)