The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans, sentence 7

Orangutans build a new nest high in the trees every night by bending and weaving branches, sometimes with a pillow or a roof of leaves.

Who acts: Orangutans · What happens: build, bend, weave · To what, where: new nest, trees, branches

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 (Orangutans), 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	Orangutans	orangutan	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 build	nsubj
2	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 nest	det
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 nest	amod
5	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 build	obj
6	high	high	ADV	_	2 build	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 trees	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trees	det
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 build	obl
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 night	det
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 build	obl:unmarked
12	by	by	SCONJ	_	13 bending	mark
13	bending	bend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 build	advcl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 weaving	cc
15	weaving	weave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 bending	conj
16	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 weaving	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 pillow	punct
18	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	_	21 pillow	advmod
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 pillow	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 pillow	det
21	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bending	obl
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 roof	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 roof	det
24	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pillow	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 leaves	case
26	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 roof	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 build	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	present	Orangutans	a new nest	the trees	night	high property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nest=Product
2	bend	gerund	Orangutans not said here				with a pillow or a roof of leaves	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	weave	gerund	Orangutans not said here	branches				vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Product

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:7.

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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