The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees, sentence 14
Gorillas and other great apes build a new nest of leaves and branches every night, or of straw in a zoo.
Who acts: Gorillas · What happens: build · To what, where: new nest
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 (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 | Gorillas | gorilla | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 build | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 apes | cc |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 apes | amod |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 apes | amod |
| 5 | apes | ape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Gorillas | conj |
| 6 | build | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 nest | det |
| 8 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 nest | amod |
| 9 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 build | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 leaves | case |
| 11 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 nest | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 branches | cc |
| 13 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 leaves | conj |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 night | det |
| 15 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 build | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 straw | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 straw | cc |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 straw | case |
| 19 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 build | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 zoo | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 zoo | det |
| 22 | zoo | zoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 straw | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 build | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | present | Gorillas and other great apes | a new nest of leaves and branches | night | of straw in a zoo | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Product |
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:14.
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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