Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bonobo and Ayumu's memory, sentence 4
A habit learned from others and passed on is a small piece of culture.
Who acts: habit · What happens: learn, pass on, be · To what, where: habit, others, small piece
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 (habit), 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 habit | det |
| 2 | habit | habit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 piece | nsubj |
| 3 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 habit | acl |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 others | case |
| 5 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 learned | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 passed | cc |
| 7 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 learned | conj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 passed | compound:prt |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 piece | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 piece | det |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 piece | amod |
| 12 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 culture | case |
| 14 | culture | culture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 piece | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 piece | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | participle | a habit not said here | others | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from other=Source | ||||
| 2 | pass on | participle | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | a habit | a small piece | of culture | tree rules |
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:4.
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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