How close are apes to us?, sentence 17

Humans have about as many hair roots as chimps, but our hairs are mostly short and fine; less fur and lots of sweat keep us cool, making humans among the best long-distance runners of all animals.

Who acts: Humans, hairs, less fur · What happens: have, be, keep, make · To what, where: many hair roots, us, humans

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 (Humans, hairs, less fur), 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	Humans	human	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	5 many	advmod
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 many	advmod
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 roots	amod
6	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 roots	compound
7	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 chimps	case
9	chimps	chimp	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 roots	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 short	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 short	cc
12	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hairs	nmod:poss
13	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 short	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 short	cop
15	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	16 short	advmod
16	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 have	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fine	cc
18	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 short	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 fur	punct
20	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 fur	amod
21	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 keep	nsubj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 lots	cc
23	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 fur	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 sweat	case
25	sweat	sweat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lots	nmod
26	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	parataxis
27	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 keep	obj
28	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 keep	xcomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 making	punct
30	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 keep	advcl
31	humans	human	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 making	obj
32	among	among	ADP	_	38 runners	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 runners	det
34	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	38 runners	amod
35	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 distance	amod
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 long	punct
37	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 runners	compound
38	runners	runner	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 making	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 animals	case
40	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	41 animals	det
41	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 runners	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Humans	many hair roots	as chimps	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Patient
2	is	present	our hairs		mostly, short property	tree rules
3	be		our hairs not said here			tree rules
4	keep	present	less fur and lots of sweat	us	cool property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
5	make	gerund	less fur and lots of sweat not said here	humans	among the best distance runners of all animals	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset human=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:017-how-close-are-apes-to-us.lesson:17.

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): R1-cc-next ×3, R5-strong ×2. 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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