The penguins of Madagascar: real penguins and chimps, sentence 4

Real chimps cannot read newspapers, but they are clever apes that learn symbols, fish for termites with sticks and crack nuts with stones.

Who acts: Real chimps, chimps, clever apes · What happens: not read, be, learn, fish, crack · To what, where: newspapers, clever apes, symbols, 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, clever apes), 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	newspapers	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 read	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 apes	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 learn	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 apes	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 apes	cop
11	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 apes	amod
12	apes	ape	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 read	conj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 learn	nsubj
14	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 apes	acl:relcl
15	symbols	symbol	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 learn	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fish	punct
17	fish	fish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 symbols	conj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 termites	case
19	termites	termite	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 fish	obl
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 sticks	case
21	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 fish	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 crack	cc
23	crack	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 fish	conj
24	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 crack	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 stones	case
26	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 crack	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 read	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not read	can	Real chimps	newspapers		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent newspaper=Topic
2	is a	present	chimps = chimp	clever apes		tree rules
3	learn	present	clever apes	symbols		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent symbol=Topic
4	fish	present	clever apes not said here		for termites; with sticks	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for termite=Theme
5	crack	present	clever apes not said here	nuts	with stones	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent nut=Patient with stone=Instrument

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:4.

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): R6-punct-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.

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