Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bonobo and Ayumu's memory, sentence 0

A chimpanzee picks a grass stem, strips off the leaves, pokes it into a termite mound, waits, and pulls it out covered in termites.

Who acts: chimpanzee · What happens: pick, strip off, poke, wait, pull out, cover · To what, where: grass stem, leaves, stem

This is a sentence of the lesson «Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bonobo and Ayumu's memory» 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 (chimpanzee), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 chimpanzee	det
2	chimpanzee	chimpanzee	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 picks	nsubj
3	picks	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stem	det
5	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stem	compound
6	stem	stem	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 picks	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 strips	punct
8	strips	strip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 picks	conj
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 strips	compound:prt
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 leaves	det
11	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 strips	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pokes	punct
13	pokes	poke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 picks	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 pokes	obj
15	into	into	ADP	_	18 mound	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 mound	det
17	termite	termite	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 mound	compound
18	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pokes	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 waits	punct
20	waits	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 picks	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 pulls	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 pulls	cc
23	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 picks	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 pulls	obj
25	out	out	ADP	_	23 pulls	compound:prt
26	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 pulls	advcl
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 termites	case
28	termites	termite	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 covered	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 picks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pick	present	a chimpanzee	a grass stem		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stem=Patient
2	strip off	present	a chimpanzee not said here	the leaves		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient
3	poke	present	a chimpanzee not said here	stem	into a termite mound	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Instrument into mound=Patient
4	wait	present	a chimpanzee not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	pull out	present	a chimpanzee not said here	stem		tree rules
6	cover	participle	a chimpanzee not said here		in termites	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in termite=Theme

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:387-clever-primates-tool-using-chimps-kanzi-the-bonobo-and-ayumu-s-memory.lesson:0.

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 ×2, 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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