Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bonobo and Ayumu's memory, sentence 14

Bearded capuchin monkeys in Brazil crack palm nuts with stones nearly as heavy as themselves, and they choose and carry the best stones.

Who acts: Bearded capuchin monkeys, monkeys · What happens: crack, choose, carry · To what, where: palm nuts, best stones

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 (Bearded capuchin monkeys, monkeys), 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	Bearded	bearded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 monkeys	amod
2	capuchin	capuchin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 monkeys	compound
3	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 crack	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Brazil	case
5	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 monkeys	nmod
6	crack	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nuts	compound
8	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 crack	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 stones	case
10	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 crack	obl
11	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	13 heavy	advmod
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 heavy	advmod
13	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stones	amod
14	as	as	ADP	_	15 themselves	case
15	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 heavy	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 choose	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 choose	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 choose	nsubj
19	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 crack	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 carry	cc
21	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 choose	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 stones	det
23	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 stones	amod
24	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 carry	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 crack	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	crack	present	Bearded capuchin monkeys in Brazil	palm nuts	with stones	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent nut=Patient with stone=Instrument
2	choose	present	monkeys = monkey			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	carry	present	monkeys = monkey not said here	the best stones		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=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:14.

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.

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