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title: There are hundreds of kinds of monkeys, from a pygmy marmoset that c… — Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops · tree and pragmatics
description: There are hundreds of kinds of monkeys, from a pygmy marmoset that could sit on your finger to a mandrill heavier than a big dog with a face painted red and blue. Who acts: hundreds, pygmy marmoset. A sentence of the lesson «Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops» of the biology course of Mova's primary s
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# Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops, sentence 0

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There are hundreds of kinds of monkeys, from a pygmy marmoset that could sit on your finger to a mandrill heavier than a big dog with a face painted red and blue.

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**Who acts:** hundreds, pygmy marmoset · **What happens:** be, sit, paint · **To what, where:** finger, face

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops» 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 (hundreds, pygmy marmoset), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:015-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops.lesson:0
# text = There are hundreds of kinds of monkeys, from a pygmy marmoset that could sit on your finger to a mandrill heavier than a big dog with a face painted red and blue.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 015-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	pygmy	pygmy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
12	marmoset	marmoset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	mandrill	mandrill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	heavier	heavy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	amod	_	_
23	than	than	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl	_	_
31	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | hundreds of kinds of monkeys |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | could | a pygmy marmoset |  |  | your finger |  | to a mandrill | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on finger=Location |
| 3 | **paint** | participle |  | a face *not said here* |  |  |  | red *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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:015-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops.lesson:0`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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