The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees, sentence 0
In the ape house a huge silverback sits quietly, chewing leaves and watching his family, because real gorillas are mostly calm, shy plant-eaters, nothing like King Kong roaring on top of a skyscraper.
Who acts: huge silverback, real gorillas · What happens: sit, chew, watch, be, roar · To what, where: ape house, leaves, family, calm shy plant eaters, top
This is a sentence of the lesson «The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees» 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 (huge silverback, real gorillas), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 house | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 house | det |
| 3 | ape | ape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 house | compound |
| 4 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sits | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 silverback | det |
| 6 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 silverback | amod |
| 7 | silverback | silverback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sits | nsubj |
| 8 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 8 sits | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 chewing | punct |
| 11 | chewing | chew | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 sits | advcl |
| 12 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 chewing | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 watching | cc |
| 14 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 chewing | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 family | nmod:poss |
| 16 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 watching | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sits | punct |
| 18 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 28 eaters | mark |
| 19 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 gorillas | amod |
| 20 | gorillas | gorilla | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 eaters | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 eaters | cop |
| 22 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 23 calm | advmod |
| 23 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 eaters | amod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 eaters | punct |
| 25 | shy | shy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 eaters | amod |
| 26 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 eaters | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 plant | punct |
| 28 | eaters | eater | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 chewing | advcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 nothing | punct |
| 30 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 28 eaters | conj |
| 31 | like | like | ADP | _ | 32 King | case |
| 32 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 nothing | nmod |
| 33 | Kong | Kong | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 King | flat |
| 34 | roaring | roar | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 nothing | acl |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 top | case |
| 36 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 roaring | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 skyscraper | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 skyscraper | det |
| 39 | skyscraper | skyscraper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 top | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sits | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | a huge silverback | the ape house | quietly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in house=Location | |||
| 2 | chew | gerund | a huge silverback not said here | leaves | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | ||||
| 3 | watch | gerund | a huge silverback not said here | silverback's family | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | real gorillas | calm shy plant eaters | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | roar | gerund | top of a skyscraper | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=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:084-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees.lesson:0.
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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