How close are apes to us?, sentence 0
Put your hand next to a picture of a chimpanzee's hand: five fingers, flat fingernails, a thumb that can touch the fingers; you are looking at a cousin.
Who acts: you, thumb · What happens: put, touch, look · To what, where: hand, fingers
This is a sentence of the lesson «How close are apes to us?» 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 (you, thumb), 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 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 hand | nmod:poss |
| 3 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obj |
| 4 | next | next | ADV | _ | 1 Put | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 picture | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 picture | det |
| 7 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 hand | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 chimpanzee | det |
| 10 | chimpanzee | chimpanzee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hand | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 chimpanzee | case |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 picture | nmod |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 fingers | punct |
| 14 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 fingers | nummod |
| 15 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hand | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fingernails | punct |
| 17 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fingernails | amod |
| 18 | fingernails | fingernail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fingers | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 thumb | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 thumb | det |
| 21 | thumb | thumb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fingers | conj |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 touch | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 touch | aux |
| 24 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 thumb | acl:relcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 fingers | det |
| 26 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 touch | obj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 looking | punct |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 looking | nsubj |
| 29 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 looking | aux |
| 30 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Put | parataxis |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 cousin | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 cousin | det |
| 33 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 looking | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Put | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | your hand | to a picture of a chimpanzee's hand; next property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal | |||
| 2 | touch | can | a thumb | the fingers | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme finger=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | present · progressive | you | at a cousin | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at cousin=Theme |
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:017-how-close-are-apes-to-us.lesson:0.
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, 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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