--- title: Real chimps cannot read newspapers, but they are clever apes that le… — The penguins of Madagascar: real penguins and ch… · tree and pragmatics description: Real chimps cannot read newspapers, but they are clever apes that learn symbols, fish for termites with sticks and crack nuts with stones. Who acts: Real chimps, chimps, clever apes. A sentence of the lesson «The penguins of Madagascar: real penguins and chimps» of the biology course of Mova's prima --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/129-madagascar-real-penguins-and-chimps/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The penguins of Madagascar: real pengu…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/129-madagascar-real-penguins-and-chimps/) / 4 # The penguins of Madagascar: real penguins and chimps, sentence 4 Real chimps cannot read newspapers, but they are clever apes that learn symbols, fish for termites with sticks and crack nuts with stones. **Who acts:** Real chimps, chimps, clever apes · **What happens:** not read, be, learn, fish, crack · **To what, where:** newspapers, clever apes, symbols, nuts This is a sentence of the lesson «The penguins of Madagascar: real penguins and chimps» 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 (Real chimps, chimps, clever apes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:129-madagascar-real-penguins-and-chimps.lesson:4 # text = Real chimps cannot read newspapers, but they are clever apes that learn symbols, fish for termites with sticks and crack nuts with stones. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 129-madagascar-real-penguins-and-chimps.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 chimps chimp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 newspapers newspaper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 apes ape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 symbols symbol NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 fish fish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 termites termite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 sticks stick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 crack crack VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 24 nuts nut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **read** | can | Real chimps | newspapers | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent newspaper=Topic | | 2 | **is a** | present | chimps *= chimp* | clever apes | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **learn** | present | clever apes | symbols | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent symbol=Topic | | 4 | **fish** | present | clever apes *not said here* | | | | | for termites; with sticks | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for termite=Theme | | 5 | **crack** | present | clever apes *not said here* | nuts | | | | with stones | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent nut=Patient with stone=Instrument | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:129-madagascar-real-penguins-and-chimps.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): R6-punct-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The penguins of Madagascar: real pengu…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/129-madagascar-real-penguins-and-chimps/3/) - next →: [The penguins of Madagascar: real pengu…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/129-madagascar-real-penguins-and-chimps/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/129-madagascar-real-penguins-and-chimps/)