The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobos, okapis and forest elephants, sentence 6

Bonobos live only south of the Congo River and settle many quarrels by sharing, grooming and play; females stick together and are often in charge.

Who acts: Bonobos, females · What happens: live, settle, share, groom, play, stick together · To what, where: many quarrels, charge

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 (Bonobos, females), 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	Bonobos	bonobo	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	nsubj
2	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 south	advmod
4	south	south	ADV	_	2 live	advmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 River	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 River	det
7	Congo	Congo	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 River	compound
8	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 south	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 settle	cc
10	settle	settle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 live	conj
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 quarrels	amod
12	quarrels	quarrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 settle	obj
13	by	by	SCONJ	_	14 sharing	mark
14	sharing	share	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 settle	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 grooming	punct
16	grooming	groom	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 sharing	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 play	cc
18	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 sharing	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 stick	punct
20	females	female	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 stick	nsubj
21	stick	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 live	parataxis
22	together	together	ADV	_	21 stick	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 charge	cc
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 charge	cop
25	often	often	ADV	_	27 charge	advmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 charge	case
27	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stick	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 live	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	present	Bonobos			south property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	settle	present	Bonobos not said here	many quarrels			vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme quarrel=Location
3	share	gerund	Bonobos not said here				tree rules
4	groom	gerund	Bonobos not said here				vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	play	present	Bonobos not said here				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	stick together	present	females			together property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
7	is	present	females not said here		charge	often property	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:6.

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, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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