The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans, sentence 10

Chimpanzees eat mostly fruit but sometimes hunt monkeys like the colobus as a team, each taking a role, and share the meat with friends.

Who acts: Chimpanzees, each · What happens: eat, hunt, take, share · To what, where: fruit, role, meat

This is a sentence of the lesson «The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans» 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, each), 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 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	4 fruit	advmod
4	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obj
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 monkeys	cc
6	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 hunt	advmod
7	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 eat	conj
8	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fruit	conj
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 colobus	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 colobus	det
11	colobus	colobus	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 monkeys	nmod
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 team	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 team	det
14	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hunt	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 taking	punct
16	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	17 taking	nsubj
17	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 hunt	advcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 role	det
19	role	role	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 taking	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 share	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 share	cc
22	share	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 taking	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 meat	det
24	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 share	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 friends	case
26	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 share	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 eat	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Chimpanzees	fruit but monkeys like the colobus		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient
2	hunt	present	Chimpanzees not said here		as a team; sometimes property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	take	gerund	each	a role		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent role=Theme
4	share	present	each not said here	the meat	with friends	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:016-the-great-apes.lesson:10.

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 ×4, 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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