The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees, sentence 8
Chimps groom each other to remove dirt and bugs, but also to make friends and make up after fights.
Who acts: Chimps · What happens: groom, remove, make, make up · To what, where: other, dirt, friends
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 (Chimps), 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 | Chimps | chimp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 groom | nsubj |
| 2 | groom | groom | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 other | det |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 groom | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 remove | mark |
| 6 | remove | remove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 groom | advcl |
| 7 | dirt | dirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 remove | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bugs | cc |
| 9 | bugs | bug | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dirt | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 make | cc |
| 12 | also | also | ADV | _ | 14 make | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 make | mark |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 remove | conj |
| 15 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 make | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 make | cc |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 make | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 make | compound:prt |
| 19 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 fights | case |
| 20 | fights | fight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 make | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 groom | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | groom | present | Chimps | each other | vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Patient | ||||
| 2 | remove | to-infinitive | Chimps not said here | dirt and bugs | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dirt=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | Chimps not said here | friends | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product | ||||
| 4 | make up | infinitive | Chimps not said here | after fights | 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:8.
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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