The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar, sentence 14
Wild capuchin monkeys in Brazil crack hard nuts with stones on a flat rock, and some of their stone tools are about 3,000 years old.
Who acts: Wild capuchin monkeys, some · What happens: crack, be · To what, where: hard nuts, flat rock
This is a sentence of the lesson «The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar» 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 capuchin monkeys, some), 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 | 3 monkeys | amod |
| 2 | capuchin | capuchin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 monkeys | compound |
| 3 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 crack | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Brazil | case |
| 5 | Brazil | Brazil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 monkeys | nmod |
| 6 | crack | crack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 nuts | amod |
| 8 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 crack | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 stones | case |
| 10 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 crack | obl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 rock | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 rock | det |
| 13 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rock | amod |
| 14 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crack | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 old | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 old | cc |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 old | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 tools | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 tools | nmod:poss |
| 20 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tools | compound |
| 21 | tools | tool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 some | nmod |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 old | cop |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 24 3,000 | advmod |
| 24 | 3,000 | 3000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 years | nummod |
| 25 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 old | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 crack | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 crack | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crack | present | Wild capuchin monkeys in Brazil | hard nuts | a flat rock | with stones | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent nut=Patient with stone=Instrument | ||
| 2 | is | present | some | year | old property | 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:086-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar.lesson:14.
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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