The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees, sentence 5

Gorillas beat their chests with cupped hands, making a popping sound that can carry about a kilometre; it shows size and often prevents fights.

Who acts: Gorillas, popping sound, kilometre · What happens: beat, cup, make, pop, carry, show · To what, where: chests, popping sound, kilometre, size, fights

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, popping sound, kilometre), 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	2 beat	nsubj
2	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 chests	nmod:poss
4	chests	chest	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 beat	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 hands	case
6	cupped	cup	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 hands	amod
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 beat	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 making	punct
9	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 beat	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 sound	det
11	popping	pop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 sound	amod
12	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 making	obj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 carry	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 carry	aux
15	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sound	acl:relcl
16	about	about	ADV	_	18 kilometre	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 kilometre	det
18	kilometre	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 carry	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 shows	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 shows	nsubj
21	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 beat	parataxis
22	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 shows	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 prevents	cc
24	often	often	ADV	_	25 prevents	advmod
25	prevents	prevent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 shows	conj
26	fights	fight	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 prevents	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 beat	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	beat	present	Gorillas	gorillas's chests	with cupped hands	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent chest=Patient with hand=Instrument
2	cup	participle				vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	make	gerund	Gorillas not said here	a popping sound		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product
4	pop	gerund				vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	carry	can	a popping sound	a kilometre		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kilometre=Theme
6	show	present	kilometre	size		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent size=Recipient
7	prevent	present	kilometre not said here	fights	often property	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer fight=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:5.

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 ×3. 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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