How close are apes to us?, sentence 13
Ayumu, a chimp in Kyoto, Japan, could remember where numbers flashed on a screen for less than a second, better than most people.
Who acts: Ayumu, numbers · What happens: remember, flash · To what, where: screen · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Ayumu, numbers), 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 | Ayumu | Ayumu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 remember | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 chimp | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 chimp | det |
| 4 | chimp | chimp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ayumu | appos |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Kyoto | case |
| 6 | Kyoto | Kyoto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 chimp | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Japan | punct |
| 8 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Kyoto | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ayumu | punct |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 remember | aux |
| 11 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 flashed | advmod |
| 13 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 flashed | nsubj |
| 14 | flashed | flash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 remember | ccomp |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 screen | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 screen | det |
| 17 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flashed | obl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 less | case |
| 19 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 flashed | obl |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 second | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 second | det |
| 22 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 flashed | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 better | punct |
| 24 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 remember | advmod |
| 25 | than | than | ADP | _ | 27 people | case |
| 26 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 27 people | amod |
| 27 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 better | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 remember | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | could | Ayumu | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | flash | past | numbers | a screen | for less; than a second | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on screen=Location |
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:13.
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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