Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bonobo and Ayumu's memory, sentence 5

Some apes learned surprising things with people: Kanzi the bonobo used hundreds of picture symbols, and Ayumu the chimp remembered numbers flashed on a screen for less than a second.

Who acts: apes, Kanzi, Ayumu · What happens: learn, use, remember, flash · To what, where: surprising things, hundreds, numbers, screen · 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 (apes, Kanzi, Ayumu), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 apes	det
2	apes	ape	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 learned	nsubj
3	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	surprising	surprising	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 learned	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 people	case
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 learned	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 Kanzi	punct
9	Kanzi	Kanzi	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 used	nsubj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bonobo	det
11	bonobo	bonobo	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Kanzi	appos
12	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 learned	parataxis
13	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 used	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 symbols	case
15	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 symbols	compound
16	symbols	symbol	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hundreds	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 remembered	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 remembered	cc
19	Ayumu	Ayumu	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 remembered	nsubj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 chimp	det
21	chimp	chimp	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Ayumu	appos
22	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 used	conj
23	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 remembered	obj
24	flashed	flash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 remembered	ccomp
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 screen	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 screen	det
27	screen	screen	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 flashed	obl
28	for	for	ADP	_	32 second	case
29	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 second	advmod
30	than	than	ADP	_	32 second	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 second	det
32	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 flashed	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 learned	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	past	some apes	surprising things			with people	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
2	use	past	Kanzi	hundreds of picture symbols				vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Patient
3	remember	past	Ayumu	numbers				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent number=Theme clause=Attribute
4	flash	past			a screen	second		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on screen=Location

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:5.

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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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