Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bonobo and Ayumu's memory, sentence 9
Scientists dug up chimp nut-cracking stones about 4,300 years old.
Who acts: Scientists · What happens: dig up, crack · To what, where: chimp cracking 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 (Scientists), 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 | Scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dug | nsubj |
| 2 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 dug | compound:prt |
| 4 | chimp | chimp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stones | compound |
| 5 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cracking | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 cracking | punct |
| 7 | cracking | crack | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 stones | amod |
| 8 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dug | obj |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 4,300 | advmod |
| 10 | 4,300 | 4,300 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 years | nummod |
| 11 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stones | nmod |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 years | amod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dug | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig up | past | Scientists | chimp cracking stones 4,300 years | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | ||||
| 2 | crack | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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:9.
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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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