The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans, sentence 6

Gorillas are almost entirely plant eaters, eating leaves, stems, shoots and fruit, and a big male can eat about 18 kilograms of plants a day.

Who acts: Gorillas, plant eaters, big male · What happens: be, eat · To what, where: plant eaters, leaves, 18 kilograms

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 (Gorillas, plant eaters, big male), 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	Gorillas	gorilla	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eaters	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 eaters	cop
3	almost	almost	ADV	_	4 entirely	advmod
4	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	6 eaters	advmod
5	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eaters	compound
6	eaters	eater	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 leaves	punct
8	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 eaters	acl
9	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eating	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stems	punct
11	stems	stem	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 leaves	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 shoots	punct
13	shoots	shoot	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 leaves	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fruit	cc
15	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 leaves	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 eat	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 eat	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 male	det
19	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 male	amod
20	male	male	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 eat	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 eat	aux
22	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 eaters	conj
23	about	about	ADV	_	24 18	advmod
24	18	18	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 kilograms	nummod
25	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 eat	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 plants	case
27	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 kilograms	nmod
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 day	det
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 eat	obl:unmarked
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 eaters	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Gorillas	plant eaters		entirely property	tree rules
2	eat	gerund	plant eaters not said here	leaves and stems and shoots and fruit			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient
3	eat	can	a big male	18 kilograms of plants	day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kilogram=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:016-the-great-apes.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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