The ape house: orangutans, gibbons, bonobos and how apes think, sentence 6
Wild orangutans hold big leaves over their heads like umbrellas, and zoo orangutans use sacks and blankets the same way.
Who acts: Wild orangutans, zoo orangutans · What happens: hold, use · To what, where: big leaves, heads, sacks
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 (Wild orangutans, zoo orangutans), 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 | Wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 orangutans | amod |
| 2 | orangutans | orangutan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hold | nsubj |
| 3 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 leaves | amod |
| 5 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hold | obj |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 heads | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 heads | nmod:poss |
| 8 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hold | obl |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 umbrellas | case |
| 10 | umbrellas | umbrella | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hold | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 use | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 use | cc |
| 13 | zoo | zoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 orangutans | compound |
| 14 | orangutans | orangutan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 use | nsubj |
| 15 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hold | conj |
| 16 | sacks | sack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 use | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 blankets | cc |
| 18 | blankets | blanket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sacks | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 way | det |
| 20 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 way | amod |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 use | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present | Wild orangutans | big leaves | leaves's heads | like umbrellas | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme over head=Location | ||
| 2 | use | present | zoo orangutans | sacks and blankets | the same way obl:unmarked | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=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:6.
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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