The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans, sentence 8
Orangutan babies stay with their mothers for about 7 or 8 years, longer than any other animal except humans; orang-utan means person of the forest in Malay.
Who acts: Orangutan babies, orang · What happens: stay, means · To what, where: person
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 (Orangutan babies, orang), 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 | Orangutan | Orangutan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 babies | compound |
| 2 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stay | nsubj |
| 3 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 mothers | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mothers | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stay | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 years | case |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 7 | advmod |
| 9 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 years | nummod |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 8 | cc |
| 11 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 7 | conj |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stay | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 animal | punct |
| 14 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 animal | advmod |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 animal | case |
| 16 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 animal | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 animal | amod |
| 18 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stay | obl |
| 19 | except | except | ADP | _ | 20 humans | case |
| 20 | humans | human | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 animal | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 stay | punct |
| 22 | orang | orang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 means | nsubj |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 orang | punct |
| 24 | utan | utan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 orang | flat |
| 25 | means | means | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 stay | parataxis |
| 26 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 means | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 forest | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 forest | det |
| 29 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 person | nmod |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 Malay | case |
| 31 | Malay | Malay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 forest | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | present | Orangutan babies | year | with babies's mothers; than any other animal except humans | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with mother=Location | |||
| 2 | means | present | orang | person of the forest in Malay | 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:8.
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): no change. 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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