---
title: Humans and giraffes really do have the same number of neck bones: se… — Viral facts and chain messages · tree and pragmatics
description: Humans and giraffes really do have the same number of neck bones: seven, like most mammals; giraffes' are just much longer. Who acts: Humans, giraffes. A sentence of the lesson «Viral facts and chain messages» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/25-viral-facts-and-chain-messages/11/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [Viral facts and chain messages](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/25-viral-facts-and-chain-messages/) / 11

# Viral facts and chain messages, sentence 11

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Humans and giraffes really do have the same number of neck bones: seven, like most mammals; giraffes' are just much longer.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Humans, giraffes · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** same number

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «Viral facts and chain messages» of the myths 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 (Humans, giraffes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:025-viral-facts-and-chain-messages.lesson:11
# text = Humans and giraffes really do have the same number of neck bones: seven, like most mammals; giraffes' are just much longer.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 025-viral-facts-and-chain-messages.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Humans	human	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	mammals	mammal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	parataxis	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
20	giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:nmod:poss
21	'	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	just	just	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	much	much	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	parataxis	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present · do-support | Humans and giraffes | the same number of neck bones |  |  |  | seven *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | giraffes |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:myths:025-viral-facts-and-chain-messages.lesson:11`.

**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): 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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Viral facts and chain messages, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/25-viral-facts-and-chain-messages/10/)
- next →: [Viral facts and chain messages, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/25-viral-facts-and-chain-messages/12/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/25-viral-facts-and-chain-messages/)