--- title: A giraffe is born with a drop of about 1.5 to 2 metres to the ground… — Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents · tree and pragmatics description: A giraffe is born with a drop of about 1.5 to 2 metres to the ground, is already about 1.8 metres tall, and usually stands within about an hour; the drop helps break the birth sac and start the baby breathing. Who acts: drop, baby. 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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 (drop, baby), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:049-babies.lesson:14 # text = A giraffe is born with a drop of about 1.5 to 2 metres to the ground, is already about 1.8 metres tall, and usually stands within about an hour; the drop helps break the birth sac and start the baby breathing. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 049-babies.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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 giraffe giraffe NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 drop drop NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 about about ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 1.5 1.5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nmod _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:case 12 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 14 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 19 already already ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 20 about about ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 21 1.8 1.8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl:unmarked _ _ 23 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 usually usually ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 28 within within ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 about about ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 drop drop NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 36 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 sac sac NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 start start VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 conj _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 44 breathing breathe VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 41 xcomp _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bear** | present · passive | | a giraffe | | | | with a drop of 1.5 2 metres to the ground | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | | 1.8 metres *obl:unmarked*; tall *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **stand** | present | | | | | hour | usually *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **help** | present | the drop | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **break** | infinitive | the drop *not said here* | the birth sac | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sac=Patient | | 6 | **start** | infinitive | the drop *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **breathe** | gerund | baby | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. 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