The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans, sentence 5

A silverback is an adult male gorilla whose back turns silver from about 12 years old; he beats his chest with cupped hands, not fists, and the pops can be heard about 1 kilometre away.

Who acts: silverback, back · What happens: be, turn, beat, cup, hear · To what, where: adult male gorilla, silver, chest, pops

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 (silverback, back), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 silverback	det
2	silverback	silverback	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gorilla	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 gorilla	cop
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 gorilla	det
5	adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 gorilla	amod
6	male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 gorilla	amod
7	gorilla	gorilla	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	9 back	nmod:poss
9	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turns	nsubj
10	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 gorilla	acl:relcl
11	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turns	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	15 years	case
13	about	about	ADV	_	14 12	advmod
14	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 years	nummod
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 turns	obl
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 years	amod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 beats	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 beats	nsubj
19	beats	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 gorilla	parataxis
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 chest	nmod:poss
21	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 beats	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 hands	case
23	cupped	cup	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 hands	amod
24	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 beats	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fists	punct
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 fists	advmod
27	fists	fist	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 hands	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 heard	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 heard	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 pops	det
31	pops	pop	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 heard	nsubj:pass
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 heard	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 heard	aux:pass
34	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 beats	conj
35	about	about	ADP	_	37 kilometre	case
36	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	37 kilometre	nummod
37	kilometre	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 away	obl
38	away	away	ADV	_	34 heard	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 gorilla	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a silverback	a adult male gorilla			tree rules
2	turn	present	back	silver	year		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent silver=Theme
3	beat	present	back	back's chest		with cupped hands and fists	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent chest=Patient with hand=Instrument
4	cup	participle					vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	hear	can · passive		the pops		away property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus

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:5.

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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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