The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees, sentence 3

Count the tails in the ape house and you will count none: apes have no tails, which is one way to tell them from monkeys.

Who acts: you, apes · What happens: count, have, be, tell · To what, where: tails, ape house, none, one way · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, apes), 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	Count	count	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tails	det
3	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Count	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 house	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 house	det
6	ape	ape	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 house	compound
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Count	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 count	cc
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 count	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 count	aux
11	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Count	conj
12	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	11 count	obj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
14	apes	ape	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 have	nsubj
15	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 none	parataxis
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 tails	det
17	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 have	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 way	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 way	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 way	cop
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 way	nummod
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 none	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 tell	mark
24	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 way	acl
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 tell	obj
26	from	from	ADP	_	27 monkeys	case
27	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 tell	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Count	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	count	imperative	you not said here	the tails		the ape house		vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme
2	count	future	you	none				vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Theme
3	have	present	apes	no tails				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
4	is a	present		one way				tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	you not said here		tails = tail		from monkeys	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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:3.

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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