The penguins of Madagascar: real penguins and chimps, sentence 15

Real chimps cannot read, but they can learn many symbols to ask for things, and wild chimps use sticks to fish for termites and stones to crack nuts.

Who acts: Real chimps, chimps, wild chimps · What happens: not read, learn, ask, use, fish, crack · To what, where: many symbols, sticks, nuts

This is a sentence of the lesson «The penguins of Madagascar: real penguins and chimps» 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 (Real chimps, chimps, wild chimps), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 chimps	amod
2	chimps	chimp	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 read	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 read	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 read	advmod
5	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 learn	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 learn	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 learn	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 learn	aux
10	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 read	conj
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 symbols	amod
12	symbols	symbol	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 learn	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 ask	mark
14	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 symbols	acl
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 things	case
16	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ask	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 use	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 use	cc
19	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 chimps	amod
20	chimps	chimp	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 use	nsubj
21	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 read	conj
22	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 use	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 fish	mark
24	fish	fish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 use	advcl
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 termites	case
26	termites	termite	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 fish	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 stones	cc
28	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 termites	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 crack	mark
30	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 stones	acl
31	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 crack	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 read	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not read	can	Real chimps			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	learn	can	chimps = chimp	many symbols		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent symbol=Topic
3	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	chimps = chimp not said here	many symbols not said here	for things	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	use	present	wild chimps	sticks		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Patient
5	fish	to-infinitive	wild chimps not said here		for termites and stones	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for termite=Theme
6	crack	to-infinitive	wild chimps not said here	nuts		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nut=Theme

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, 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:129-madagascar-real-penguins-and-chimps.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): 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.

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