The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees, sentence 4
The silverback is the grown-up male leader of a gorilla group; the silver hair on his back appears at about 12 years old.
Who acts: silverback, silver hair · What happens: grow up, be, appear · To what, where: grown male leader, old
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 (silverback, silver hair), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 silverback | det |
| 2 | silverback | silverback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leader | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 leader | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 leader | det |
| 5 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 leader | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 up | punct |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 grown | compound:prt |
| 8 | male | male | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 leader | amod |
| 9 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 group | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 group | det |
| 12 | gorilla | gorilla | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 group | compound |
| 13 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leader | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 appears | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hair | det |
| 16 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hair | amod |
| 17 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 appears | nsubj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 back | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 back | nmod:poss |
| 20 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hair | nmod |
| 21 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 leader | parataxis |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 years | case |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 24 12 | advmod |
| 24 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 years | nummod |
| 25 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 old | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 appears | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 leader | 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 | grow up | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | the silverback | the grown male leader | of a gorilla group | tree rules | |||
| 3 | appear | present | the silver hair on silverback's back | old | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: 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:4.
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): R4-particle ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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