The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees, sentence 13
Real gorillas weigh up to about 200 kilograms and live mostly on the ground, seldom climbing high; a gorilla as big as a building could not exist, because its bones would break under its weight.
Who acts: Real gorillas, bones · What happens: weigh up, live, climb, not exist, break · To what, where: ground, weight
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 (Real gorillas, bones), 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 gorillas | amod |
| 2 | gorillas | gorilla | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 weigh | nsubj |
| 3 | weigh | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 weigh | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 kilograms | case |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 200 | advmod |
| 7 | 200 | 200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 kilograms | nummod |
| 8 | kilograms | kilogram | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 weigh | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 live | cc |
| 10 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 weigh | conj |
| 11 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 14 ground | advmod |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 ground | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ground | det |
| 14 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 live | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 climbing | punct |
| 16 | seldom | seldom | ADV | _ | 17 climbing | advmod |
| 17 | climbing | climb | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 live | advcl |
| 18 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 climbing | xcomp |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 gorilla | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 gorilla | det |
| 21 | gorilla | gorilla | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 weigh | conj |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | _ | 23 big | advmod |
| 23 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 gorilla | amod |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 exist | mark |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 building | det |
| 26 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 big | obl |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 exist | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 exist | advmod |
| 29 | exist | exist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 big | ccomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 break | punct |
| 31 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 35 break | mark |
| 32 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 bones | nmod:poss |
| 33 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 break | nsubj |
| 34 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 break | aux |
| 35 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 exist | advcl |
| 36 | under | under | ADP | _ | 38 weight | case |
| 37 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 weight | nmod:poss |
| 38 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 break | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 weigh | 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 | weigh up | present | Real gorillas | to 200 kilograms | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | present | Real gorillas not said here | the ground | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Location | ||||
| 3 | climb | gerund | Real gorillas not said here | high, seldom property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not exist | could | Real gorillas not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | break | would | building's bones | building's weight | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under weight=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:13.
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 ×2. 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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