The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobos, okapis and forest elephants, sentence 14

Chimpanzees strip leaves off sticks to fish for termites, young chimps learn by watching their mothers, and different chimp groups have different tool habits.

Who acts: Chimpanzees, young chimps, different chimp groups · What happens: strip, learn, watch, have · To what, where: leaves, sticks, mothers, different tool habits

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobos, okapis and forest elephants» 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 (Chimpanzees, young chimps, different chimp groups), 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	Chimpanzees	chimpanzee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 strip	nsubj
2	strip	strip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 strip	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	5 sticks	case
5	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 leaves	nmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 fish	case
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 strip	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 termites	case
9	termites	termite	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fish	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 learn	punct
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 chimps	amod
12	chimps	chimp	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 learn	nsubj
13	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 strip	conj
14	by	by	SCONJ	_	15 watching	mark
15	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 learn	advcl
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mothers	nmod:poss
17	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 watching	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 learn	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 have	cc
20	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 groups	amod
21	chimp	chimp	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 groups	compound
22	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 have	nsubj
23	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 learn	conj
24	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 habits	amod
25	tool	tool	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 habits	compound
26	habits	habit	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 have	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 strip	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	strip	present	Chimpanzees	leaves	sticks	to fish for termites	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme off stick=Initial_Location
2	learn	present	young chimps				vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	watch	gerund	young chimps not said here	chimps's mothers			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme
4	have	present	different chimp groups	different tool habits			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent habit=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:159-the-congo-rainforest.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×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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