Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bonobo and Ayumu's memory, sentence 1
Stripping the leaves means it is making a tool, not just finding one.
Who acts: Stripping, chimpanzee · What happens: strip, mean, make, not find · To what, where: leaves, tool, one · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Stripping, 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 | Stripping | strip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 means | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 leaves | det |
| 3 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Stripping | obj |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 making | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 making | aux |
| 7 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 means | ccomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tool | det |
| 9 | tool | tool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 making | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 finding | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 finding | advmod |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 finding | advmod |
| 13 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 making | conj |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 finding | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strip | gerund | the leaves | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | Stripping | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | make | present · progressive | chimpanzee | a tool | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material tool=Product | ||||
| 4 | not find | gerund | chimpanzee not said here | one | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic |
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:1.
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): no change. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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