The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees, sentence 9
An adult chimpanzee is about a third stronger than a fit person of the same weight and can be dangerous, so chimps must never be pets.
Who acts: adult chimpanzee, chimps · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: pets
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 (adult chimpanzee, 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 chimpanzee | det |
| 2 | adult | adult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 chimpanzee | amod |
| 3 | chimpanzee | chimpanzee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stronger | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 stronger | cop |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 third | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 third | det |
| 7 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stronger | obl |
| 8 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 person | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 person | det |
| 11 | fit | fit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 person | amod |
| 12 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stronger | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 weight | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 weight | det |
| 15 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 weight | amod |
| 16 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 person | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 dangerous | cc |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 dangerous | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 dangerous | cop |
| 20 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stronger | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 chimps | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 pets | advmod |
| 23 | chimps | chimp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 pets | nsubj |
| 24 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 pets | aux |
| 25 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 27 pets | advmod |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 pets | cop |
| 27 | pets | pet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stronger | parataxis |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stronger | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a adult chimpanzee | than a fit person of the same weight; a third obl; strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | can | a adult chimpanzee not said here | dangerous property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is a | must | chimps | pets | tree rules |
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:9.
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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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