The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobos, okapis and forest elephants, sentence 2
Cartoon gorillas like King Kong thump their chests with fists, roar and smash things; real gorillas are mostly calm plant-eaters, and chest-beating is a show, not an attack.
Who acts: Cartoon gorillas, real gorillas, chest beating · What happens: thump, roar, smash, be · To what, where: chests, things, calm plant eaters, show
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 (Cartoon gorillas, real gorillas, chest beating), 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 | Cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gorillas | compound |
| 2 | gorillas | gorilla | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 thump | nsubj |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 Kong | case |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Kong | flat |
| 5 | Kong | Kong | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gorillas | nmod |
| 6 | thump | thump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 chests | nmod:poss |
| 8 | chests | chest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 thump | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 fists | case |
| 10 | fists | fist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 thump | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 roar | punct |
| 12 | roar | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 thump | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 smash | cc |
| 14 | smash | smash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 thump | conj |
| 15 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 smash | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 thump | punct |
| 17 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 gorillas | amod |
| 18 | gorillas | gorilla | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 eaters | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 eaters | cop |
| 20 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 24 eaters | advmod |
| 21 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 eaters | amod |
| 22 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 eaters | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 plant | punct |
| 24 | eaters | eater | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 thump | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 show | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 show | cc |
| 27 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 beating | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 chest | punct |
| 29 | beating | beating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 show | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 show | cop |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 show | det |
| 32 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 eaters | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 attack | punct |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 attack | advmod |
| 35 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 attack | det |
| 36 | attack | attack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 show | parataxis |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 thump | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thump | present | Cartoon gorillas like King Kong | gorillas's chests | with fists | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent chest=Patient with fist=Instrument | |||
| 2 | roar | present | Cartoon gorillas like King Kong not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | smash | present | Cartoon gorillas like King Kong not said here | things | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | real gorillas | calm plant eaters and a show | mostly property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is a | present | chest beating | a show | tree rules |
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:2.
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): R5-strong ×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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