How close are apes to us?, sentence 7
It is a myth that people came from chimps: chimps and humans are cousins who both changed from a common ancestor.
Who acts: people, chimps, cousins · What happens: be, come, change · To what, where: myth, chimps, cousins, common ancestor
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 (people, chimps, cousins), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 myth | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 myth | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 myth | det |
| 4 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 came | mark |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 myth | csubj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 chimps | case |
| 9 | chimps | chimp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 came | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 chimps | punct |
| 11 | chimps | chimp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 cousins | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 humans | cc |
| 13 | humans | human | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 chimps | conj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 cousins | cop |
| 15 | cousins | cousin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 myth | parataxis |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 changed | nsubj |
| 17 | both | both | ADV | _ | 18 changed | advmod |
| 18 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 cousins | acl:relcl |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 ancestor | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 ancestor | det |
| 21 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 ancestor | amod |
| 22 | ancestor | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 changed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 myth | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a myth | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come | past | people | chimps | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from chimp=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | chimps and humans | cousins | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | change | past | cousins | a common ancestor | both property | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent from ancestor=Initial_State |
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:7.
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): R7-rel-agree ×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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