The ape house: orangutans, gibbons, bonobos and how apes think, sentence 11
Great apes do not swim naturally and can drown, so zoos use water moats around ape islands.
Who acts: Great apes, zoos · What happens: not swim, drown, use · To what, where: water moats, ape islands
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 (Great apes, zoos), 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 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 apes | amod |
| 2 | apes | ape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 swim | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 swim | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 swim | advmod |
| 5 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 5 swim | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 drown | cc |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 drown | aux |
| 9 | drown | drown | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 swim | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 use | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 use | advmod |
| 12 | zoos | zoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 use | nsubj |
| 13 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 swim | parataxis |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 moats | compound |
| 15 | moats | moat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 use | obj |
| 16 | around | around | ADP | _ | 18 islands | case |
| 17 | ape | ape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 islands | compound |
| 18 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 moats | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 swim | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not swim | present · do-support | Great apes | naturally property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drown | can | Great apes not said here | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | use | present | zoos | water moats | ape islands | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moat=Patient |
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:11.
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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