Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bonobo and Ayumu's memory, sentence 7

A chimp pushes a stripped grass stem into a termite mound, waits for termites to bite it and pulls it out to eat them.

Who acts: chimp · What happens: push, strip, wait, bite, pull out, eat · To what, where: stripped grass stem, termite mound, stem, chimps

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 (chimp), 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 chimp	det
2	chimp	chimp	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushes	nsubj
3	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stem	det
5	stripped	strip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 stem	amod
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stem	compound
7	stem	stem	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushes	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	11 mound	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 mound	det
10	termite	termite	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mound	compound
11	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushes	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 waits	punct
13	waits	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 pushes	conj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 termites	case
15	termites	termite	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 waits	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 bite	mark
17	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 waits	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bite	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 pulls	cc
20	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 pushes	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 pulls	obj
22	out	out	ADP	_	20 pulls	compound:prt
23	to	to	PART	_	24 eat	mark
24	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 pulls	advcl
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 eat	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pushes	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	push	present	a chimp	a stripped grass stem	a termite mound		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stem=Theme into mound=Destination
2	strip	participle					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wait	present	a chimp not said here			for termites	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	bite	to-infinitive	a chimp not said here	stem			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	pull out	present	a chimp not said here	stem			tree rules
6	eat	to-infinitive	a chimp not said here	chimps = chimp			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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:7.

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): 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.

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