The ape house: orangutans, gibbons, bonobos and how apes think, sentence 0
An orangutan moves slowly across the ropes on arms longer than its legs, an arm span of over 2 metres, while a gibbon flies arm over arm so fast it looks like a swinging pendulum.
Who acts: orangutan, gibbon · What happens: move, fly, look, swing · To what, where: arm span, ropes, arm arm
This is a sentence of the lesson «The ape house: orangutans, gibbons, bonobos and how apes think» 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 (orangutan, gibbon), 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 | 2 orangutan | det |
| 2 | orangutan | orangutan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 moves | nsubj |
| 3 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 3 moves | advmod |
| 5 | across | across | ADP | _ | 7 ropes | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ropes | det |
| 7 | ropes | rope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 moves | obl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 arms | case |
| 9 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 moves | obl |
| 10 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 arms | advmod |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 legs | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 legs | nmod:poss |
| 13 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 longer | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 span | punct |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 span | det |
| 16 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 span | compound |
| 17 | span | span | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 moves | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 metres | case |
| 19 | over | over | ADV | _ | 20 2 | advmod |
| 20 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 metres | nummod |
| 21 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 span | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 flies | punct |
| 23 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 26 flies | mark |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 gibbon | det |
| 25 | gibbon | gibbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 flies | nsubj |
| 26 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 moves | advcl |
| 27 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 arm | compound |
| 28 | over | over | ADP | _ | 29 arm | case |
| 29 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 flies | obl |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 fast | advmod |
| 31 | fast | fast | ADV | _ | 26 flies | advmod |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 looks | nsubj |
| 33 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 flies | advcl |
| 34 | like | like | ADP | _ | 37 pendulum | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 pendulum | det |
| 36 | swinging | swing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 37 pendulum | amod |
| 37 | pendulum | pendulum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 looks | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 moves | 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 | move | present | a orangutan | a arm span of 2 metres | the ropes | on arms; slowly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme across rope=Source on arm=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | fly | present | a gibbon | arm arm | fast property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over arm=Location | |||
| 3 | look | present | gibbon | like a swinging pendulum | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | swing | gerund | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=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:085-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos.lesson:0.
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. 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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