The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees, sentence 12
A long, hard stare can be a challenge in gorilla language, so keepers ask visitors not to stare at the gorillas.
Who acts: long hard stare, keepers · What happens: be, ask, not stare · To what, where: challenge, gorilla language, visitors
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 (long hard stare, keepers), 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 | 5 stare | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stare | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 long | punct |
| 4 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stare | amod |
| 5 | stare | stare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 challenge | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 challenge | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 challenge | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 challenge | det |
| 9 | challenge | challenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 language | case |
| 11 | gorilla | gorilla | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 language | compound |
| 12 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 challenge | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ask | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 ask | advmod |
| 15 | keepers | keeper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ask | nsubj |
| 16 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 challenge | parataxis |
| 17 | visitors | visitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ask | obj |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 stare | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 stare | mark |
| 20 | stare | stare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 ask | xcomp |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 gorillas | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 gorillas | det |
| 23 | gorillas | gorilla | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 stare | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 challenge | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | can | a long hard stare | a challenge | gorilla language | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | keepers | visitors | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent visitor=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not stare not said to happen | to-infinitive | keepers not said here | at the gorillas | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at gorilla=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:084-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees.lesson:12.
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. 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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