The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees, sentence 15

Zoo gorillas eat mostly leafy greens and vegetables; bananas are only treats, because sweet farm fruit has too much sugar for them and can harm their teeth and bellies.

Who acts: Zoo gorillas, bananas, sweet farm fruit · What happens: eat, be, have, harm · To what, where: leafy greens, treats, much sugar, teeth

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 (Zoo gorillas, bananas, sweet farm fruit), 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	Zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gorillas	compound
2	gorillas	gorilla	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	5 leafy	advmod
5	leafy	leafy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 greens	amod
6	greens	green	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 vegetables	cc
8	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 greens	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 treats	punct
10	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 treats	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 treats	cop
12	only	only	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 treats	advmod
13	treats	treat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 has	punct
15	because	because	SCONJ	_	19 has	mark
16	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 fruit	amod
17	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fruit	compound
18	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 has	nsubj
19	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	advcl
20	too	too	ADV	_	21 much	advmod
21	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sugar	amod
22	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 has	obj
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sugar	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 harm	cc
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 harm	aux
27	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 has	conj
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 teeth	nmod:poss
29	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 harm	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 bellies	cc
31	bellies	belly	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 teeth	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 eat	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Zoo gorillas	leafy greens and vegetables		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent green=Patient
2	is a	present	bananas	treats		tree rules
3	have	present	sweet farm fruit	much sugar	for gorillas = gorilla	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient
4	harm	can	sweet farm fruit not said here	gorillas's teeth and bellies		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tooth=Experiencer

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:15.

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): R7-rel-agree ×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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