The ape house: orangutans, gibbons, bonobos and how apes think, sentence 4

Orangutans spend almost all their lives in trees; their arms are far longer than their legs and their arm span can be over 2 metres.

Who acts: Orangutans, arms, arm span · What happens: spend, be · To what, where: lives, trees, 2 metres

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 (Orangutans, arms, arm span), 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	Orangutans	orangutan	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spend	nsubj
2	spend	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	almost	almost	ADV	_	4 all	advmod
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 lives	det:predet
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 lives	nmod:poss
6	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spend	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 trees	case
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spend	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 legs	punct
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 arms	nmod:poss
11	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 longer	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 longer	cop
13	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 longer	advmod
14	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 spend	parataxis
15	than	than	ADP	_	17 legs	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 legs	nmod:poss
17	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 longer	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 metres	cc
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 span	nmod:poss
20	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 span	compound
21	span	span	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 metres	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 metres	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 metres	cop
24	over	over	ADV	_	25 2	advmod
25	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	26 metres	nummod
26	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 legs	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spend	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spend	present	Orangutans	Apes's lives	trees		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Asset
2	is	present	Apes's arms			than Apes's legs and 2 metres; far, long property	tree rules
3	is a	can	Apes's arm span	2 metres			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:085-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos.lesson:4.

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 ×2, 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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