Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops, sentence 14

Wild monkeys eat fruit, leaves, seeds, flowers and insects; our sweet bananas were bred by people, and Paignton Zoo in England stopped giving monkeys bananas because the sugar harmed their teeth and tummies.

Who acts: Wild monkeys, people, Paignton Zoo, sugar · What happens: eat, breed, stop, give, harm · To what, where: fruit, sweet bananas, monkeys bananas, teeth

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 (Wild monkeys, people, Paignton Zoo, sugar), 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	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 monkeys	amod
2	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 leaves	punct
6	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fruit	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 seeds	punct
8	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fruit	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 flowers	punct
10	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fruit	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 insects	cc
12	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fruit	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 eat	punct
14	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 bananas	nmod:poss
15	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bananas	amod
16	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 bred	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 bred	aux:pass
18	bred	breed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 eat	parataxis
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 people	case
20	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 bred	obl:agent
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 stopped	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 Zoo	cc
23	Paignton	Paignton	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Zoo	compound
24	Zoo	Zoo	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 stopped	nsubj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 England	case
26	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Zoo	nmod
27	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	conj
28	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 stopped	xcomp
29	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 bananas	compound
30	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 giving	obj
31	because	because	SCONJ	_	34 harmed	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sugar	det
33	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 harmed	nsubj
34	harmed	harm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 stopped	advcl
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 teeth	nmod:poss
36	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 harmed	obj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 tummies	cc
38	tummies	tummy	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 teeth	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 eat	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	eat	present	Wild monkeys	fruit and leaves and seeds and flowers and insects	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient
2	breed	past · passive	people	our sweet bananas	tree rules
3	stop	past	Paignton Zoo in England		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	give	gerund	Paignton Zoo in England not said here	monkeys bananas	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent banana=Theme
5	harm	past	the sugar	monkeys's teeth and tummies	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tooth=Experiencer

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:14.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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