The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees, sentence 2

Next door the chimpanzees poke sticks into a fake termite mound to fish out honey and sit grooming each other, which is how chimps make friends and make up after a quarrel.

Who acts: chimpanzees · What happens: poke, fish out, sit, groom, be, make up · To what, where: Next door, honey, each

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 (chimpanzees), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 door	amod
2	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 poke	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 chimpanzees	det
4	chimpanzees	chimpanzee	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 poke	nsubj
5	poke	poke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 poke	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	11 mound	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 mound	det
9	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 mound	amod
10	termite	termite	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mound	compound
11	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 poke	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 fish	mark
13	fish	fish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 poke	advcl
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 fish	compound:prt
15	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fish	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sit	cc
17	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 fish	conj
18	grooming	groom	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 sit	xcomp
19	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	18 grooming	obj
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 each	fixed
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 make	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 make	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 make	cop
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 make	advmod
25	chimps	chimp	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 make	nsubj
26	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 grooming	conj
27	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 make	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 make	cc
29	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 make	conj
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 make	compound:prt
31	after	after	ADP	_	33 quarrel	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 quarrel	det
33	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 make	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 poke	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	poke	present	the chimpanzees	Next door		into a fake termite mound	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent stick=Instrument into mound=Patient
2	fish out	to-infinitive	the chimpanzees not said here	honey			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Theme
3	sit	infinitive	the chimpanzees not said here				tree rules
4	groom	gerund	the chimpanzees not said here	each			vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Patient
5	is	present				make property	tree rules
6	make up	present			after a quarrel		vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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:2.

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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