Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maathai and the rangers, sentence 5

Jane Goodall began studying chimpanzees in Tanzania in 1960 and found that chimps make and use tools, such as twigs stripped to fish for termites.

Who acts: Jane, chimps · What happens: begin, study, find, make, use, strip · To what, where: 1960, chimpanzees, Tanzania, tools, twigs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maathai and the rangers» 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 (Jane, chimps), 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	Jane	Jane	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 began	nsubj
2	Goodall	Goodall	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Jane	flat
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	studying	study	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 began	xcomp
5	chimpanzees	chimpanzee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 studying	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Tanzania	case
7	Tanzania	Tanzania	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 chimpanzees	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 1960	case
9	1960	1960	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 began	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 found	cc
11	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 make	mark
13	chimps	chimp	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 make	nsubj
14	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 found	ccomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 use	cc
16	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 make	conj
17	tools	tool	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 use	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 twigs	punct
19	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	21 twigs	case
20	as	as	ADP	_	19 such	fixed
21	twigs	twig	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 tools	nmod
22	stripped	strip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 twigs	acl
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 fish	case
24	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stripped	obl
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 termites	case
26	termites	termite	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 fish	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Jane		1960		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	study	gerund	Jane not said here	chimpanzees	Tanzania		vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chimpanzee=Topic
3	find	past	Jane not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	make	present	chimps				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
5	use	infinitive	chimps not said here	tools		such twigs	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tool=Patient
6	strip	participle		twigs not said here		to fish for termites	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers.lesson:5.

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, R8-pos-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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