Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops, sentence 13

Monkeys groom each other, picking out dirt, dead skin and bugs, which keeps fur clean, builds friendships and calms them down.

Who acts: Monkeys, dead skin · What happens: groom, pick out, keep, build, calm down · To what, where: each, dirt, fur, friendships, monkeys

This is a sentence of the lesson «Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops» 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 (Monkeys, dead skin), 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	Monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 groom	nsubj
2	groom	groom	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	2 groom	obj
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 each	fixed
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 picking	punct
6	picking	pick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 groom	advcl
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 picking	compound:prt
8	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 picking	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 skin	punct
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 skin	amod
11	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dirt	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 bugs	cc
13	bugs	bug	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 skin	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 keeps	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 keeps	nsubj
16	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 skin	acl:relcl
17	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 keeps	obj
18	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 keeps	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 builds	punct
20	builds	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 keeps	conj
21	friendships	friendship	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 builds	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 calms	cc
23	calms	calm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 builds	conj
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 calms	obj
25	down	down	ADP	_	23 calms	compound:prt
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 groom	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	groom	present	Monkeys	each		vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Patient
2	pick out	gerund	Monkeys not said here	dirt and dead skin and bugs		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dirt=Patient
3	keep	present	dead skin and bugs	fur	clean property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fur=Theme
4	build	present	dead skin and bugs not said here	friendships		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friendship=Product
5	calm down	present	dead skin and bugs not said here	monkeys = monkey		vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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:015-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops.lesson:13.

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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