--- title: A giraffe has 7 neck bones like almost all mammals, each up to about… — More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwha… · tree and pragmatics description: A giraffe has 7 neck bones like almost all mammals, each up to about 25 cm long; sloths and manatees are among the few mammals with a different number. Who acts: giraffe, sloths. A sentence of the lesson «More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chameleon, electric eel, giraffe» of the bio --- [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/15/) [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/) / 15 # More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chameleon, electric eel, giraffe, sentence 15 A giraffe has 7 neck bones like almost all mammals, each up to about 25 cm long; sloths and manatees are among the few mammals with a different number. **Who acts:** giraffe, sloths · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** 7 neck bones 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 (giraffe, sloths), 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:15 # text = A giraffe has 7 neck bones like almost all mammals, each up to about 25 cm long; sloths and manatees are among the few mammals with a different number. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 giraffe giraffe NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 5 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 like like ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 almost almost ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 9 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 10 mammals mammal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 10 appos _ _ 13 up up ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 15 about about ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 25 25 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 cm cm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 18 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 nmod _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 20 sloths sloth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=20:cc 22 manatees manatee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 24 among among ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 mammals mammal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 28 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 32 . . 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 | a giraffe | 7 neck bones | | | | like all mammals | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | sloths and manatees | | | | | among the few mammals; with a different number | 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:15`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, 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: [More record-breakers and oddballs: slo…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe/14/) - next →: [More record-breakers and oddballs: slo…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe/)