Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bonobo and Ayumu's memory, sentence 11

Kanzi the bonobo learned hundreds of picture symbols by watching his mother's lessons, understood many spoken English sentences and learned to make sharp stone flakes.

Who acts: Kanzi · What happens: learn, watch, understand, speak, make · To what, where: hundreds, lessons, many spoken English sentences, sharp stone flakes · 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 (Kanzi), 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	Kanzi	Kanzi	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 learned	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bonobo	det
3	bonobo	bonobo	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Kanzi	appos
4	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 learned	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 symbols	case
7	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 symbols	compound
8	symbols	symbol	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hundreds	nmod
9	by	by	SCONJ	_	10 watching	mark
10	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 learned	advcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mother	nmod:poss
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lessons	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 mother	case
14	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 watching	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 understood	punct
16	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 learned	conj
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 sentences	amod
18	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 sentences	amod
19	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 sentences	amod
20	sentences	sentence	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 understood	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 learned	cc
22	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 learned	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 make	mark
24	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 learned	xcomp
25	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 flakes	amod
26	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 flakes	compound
27	flakes	flake	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 make	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 learned	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	learn	past	Kanzi	hundreds of picture symbols	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Topic
2	watch	gerund	Kanzi not said here	Kanzi's mother's lessons	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Theme
3	understand	past	Kanzi not said here	many spoken English sentences	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sentence=Stimulus
4	speak speech: other	participle			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	learn	past	Kanzi not said here		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	make	to-infinitive	Kanzi not said here	sharp stone flakes	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset flake=Product

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:11.

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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