The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees, sentence 7

Wild chimpanzees make tools: they fish for termites with stripped twigs, crack nuts with stones and use leaves as sponges.

Who acts: Wild chimpanzees, chimpanzees · What happens: make, fish, strip, crack, use · To what, where: tools, nuts, leaves

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 (Wild chimpanzees, 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	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 chimpanzees	amod
2	chimpanzees	chimpanzee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	tools	tool	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	obj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 fish	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fish	nsubj
7	fish	fish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 make	parataxis
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 termites	case
9	termites	termite	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fish	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 twigs	case
11	stripped	strip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 twigs	amod
12	twigs	twig	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 termites	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 crack	punct
14	crack	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fish	conj
15	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 crack	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 stones	case
17	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 crack	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 use	cc
19	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fish	conj
20	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 use	obj
21	as	as	ADP	_	22 sponges	case
22	sponges	sponge	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 use	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present	Wild chimpanzees	tools		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tool=Product
2	fish	present	chimpanzees = chimpanzee		for termites with stripped twigs	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for termite=Theme
3	strip	participle				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	crack	present	chimpanzees = chimpanzee not said here	nuts	with stones	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent nut=Patient with stone=Instrument
5	use	present	chimpanzees = chimpanzee not said here	leaves	as sponges	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent leaf=Duration as sponge=Attribute

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:7.

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 ×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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