The ape house: orangutans, gibbons, bonobos and how apes think, sentence 12
Some zoos let apes play memory games on touch screens, and in a famous test young chimps remembered flashing numbers faster than university students.
Who acts: zoos, apes, young chimps · What happens: let, play, remember, flash · To what, where: apes, memory games, touch screens, famous test, numbers
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 (zoos, apes, young 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 zoos | det |
| 2 | zoos | zoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 let | nsubj |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | apes | ape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 let | obj |
| 5 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 6 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 games | compound |
| 7 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 play | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 screens | case |
| 9 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 screens | compound |
| 10 | screens | screen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 play | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 remembered | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 remembered | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 test | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 test | det |
| 15 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 test | amod |
| 16 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 remembered | obl |
| 17 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 chimps | amod |
| 18 | chimps | chimp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 remembered | nsubj |
| 19 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | conj |
| 20 | flashing | flash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 remembered | advcl |
| 21 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 flashing | obj |
| 22 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 flashing | advmod |
| 23 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 students | case |
| 24 | university | university | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 students | compound |
| 25 | students | student | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 faster | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | present | some zoos | apes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | play | infinitive | apes not said here | memory games | touch screens | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme | |||
| 3 | remember | past | young chimps | a famous test | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | flash | gerund | young chimps not said here | numbers | fast property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent number=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:085-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos.lesson:12.
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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