--- title: A giraffe's neck looks as if it must have extra bones, but it has 7,… — More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwha… · tree and pragmatics description: A giraffe's neck looks as if it must have extra bones, but it has 7, exactly as many as yours; each one is just very long, up to about 25 cm, longer than a new pencil. Who acts: neck, one. A sentence of the lesson «More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chameleon, electric eel, giraffe» --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [More record-breakers and oddballs: slo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe/) / 1 # More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chameleon, electric eel, giraffe, sentence 1 A giraffe's neck looks as if it must have extra bones, but it has 7, exactly as many as yours; each one is just very long, up to about 25 cm, longer than a new pencil. **Who acts:** neck, one · **What happens:** look, have, be · **To what, where:** extra bones, 7 This is a sentence of the lesson «More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chameleon, electric eel, giraffe» 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 (neck, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:045-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe.lesson:1 # text = A giraffe's neck looks as if it must have extra bones, but it has 7, exactly as many as yours; each one is just very long, up to about 25 cm, longer than a new pencil. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 045-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe.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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 giraffe giraffe NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 as as SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 7 if if SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 11 extra extra ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 17 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 20 as as ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 22 as as ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 yours your PRON PRP Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 25 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 26 det _ _ 26 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 just just ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 very very ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 conj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 up up ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 about about ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 25 25 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 36 nummod _ _ 36 cm cm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 longer long ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 advcl _ _ 39 than than ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 pencil pencil NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 43 . . 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 | **look** | present | a giraffe's neck | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **have** | must | neck | extra bones | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient | | 3 | **have** | present | neck | 7 | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 7=Patient | | 4 | **is** | present | each one | | | | | long *property* | 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:045-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe.lesson:1`. **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): no change. **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: [More record-breakers and oddballs: slo…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe/0/) - next →: [More record-breakers and oddballs: slo…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe/)