The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans, sentence 9
Bonobos look like slim chimpanzees, live only south of the wide Congo River, which apes cannot swim across, while chimps live to the north of it, have groups led by females, and often settle quarrels peacefully and share food.
Who acts: Bonobos, apes, chimps · What happens: look, live, not swim, have, lead, settle · To what, where: groups, quarrels, food
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 (Bonobos, apes, chimps), 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 | Bonobos | bonobo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 look | nsubj |
| 2 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 chimpanzees | case |
| 4 | slim | slim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 chimpanzees | amod |
| 5 | chimpanzees | chimpanzee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 look | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 live | punct |
| 7 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 look | conj |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 south | advmod |
| 9 | south | south | ADV | _ | 7 live | advmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 River | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 River | det |
| 12 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 River | amod |
| 13 | Congo | Congo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 River | compound |
| 14 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 south | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 apes | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 apes | obj |
| 17 | apes | ape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 swim | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 swim | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 swim | advmod |
| 20 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 River | acl:relcl |
| 21 | across | across | ADV | _ | 20 swim | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 live | punct |
| 23 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 25 live | mark |
| 24 | chimps | chimp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 live | nsubj |
| 25 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 live | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 north | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 north | det |
| 28 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 live | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 it | case |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 north | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 have | punct |
| 32 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 look | parataxis |
| 33 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 have | obj |
| 34 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 groups | acl |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 36 females | case |
| 36 | females | female | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 led | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 settle | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 settle | cc |
| 39 | often | often | ADV | _ | 40 settle | advmod |
| 40 | settle | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 have | conj |
| 41 | quarrels | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 settle | obj |
| 42 | peacefully | peacefully | ADV | _ | 40 settle | advmod |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 share | cc |
| 44 | share | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 settle | conj |
| 45 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 share | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | Bonobos | like slim chimpanzees | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | live | present | Bonobos not said here | south property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not swim | can | apes | across property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | live | present | chimps | to the north of north | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have | present | groups | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=Patient | |||||
| 6 | lead | participle | groups not said here | by females | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by female=Destination | ||||
| 7 | settle | present | quarrels | often, peacefully property | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme quarrel=Location | ||||
| 8 | share | present | food | 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:9.
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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