How close are apes to us?, sentence 4

Apes are not just worse humans: a young chimp called Ayumu beat grown-up people at a quick number memory game, and chimp groups even have their own traditions.

Who acts: Apes, chimp groups · What happens: not be, call, beat, grow, have · To what, where: worse humans, young chimp, quick memory game, own traditions · 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 (Apes, chimp groups), 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	Apes	ape	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 humans	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 humans	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 humans	advmod
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 humans	advmod
5	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 humans	amod
6	humans	human	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 humans	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 chimp	det
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 chimp	amod
10	chimp	chimp	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 beat	nsubj:pass
11	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 chimp	acl
12	Ayumu	Ayumu	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 called	xcomp
13	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 humans	parataxis
14	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 people	amod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 up	punct
16	up	up	ADV	_	14 grown	advmod
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 beat	obj
18	at	at	ADP	_	23 game	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 game	det
20	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 game	amod
21	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 memory	compound
22	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 game	compound
23	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 beat	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 have	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 have	cc
26	chimp	chimp	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 groups	compound
27	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 have	nsubj
28	even	even	ADV	_	29 have	advmod
29	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 beat	conj
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 traditions	nmod:poss
31	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 traditions	amod
32	traditions	tradition	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 have	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 humans	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not is a	present	Apes	worse humans		tree rules
2	call	participle		a young chimp not said here		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	beat	present · passive		a young chimp	a quick memory game	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient people=Result
4	grow	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	have	present	chimp groups	chimps's own traditions		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tradition=Patient

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:4.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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