--- title: They come in two big families: New World monkeys of Central and Sout… — Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops · tree and pragmatics description: They come in two big families: New World monkeys of Central and South America with flat noses and sideways nostrils, and Old World monkeys of Africa and Asia with narrow noses and nostrils pointing down. Who acts: hundreds, narrow noses. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hundreds, narrow noses), 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:1 # text = They come in two big families: New World monkeys of Central and South America with flat noses and sideways nostrils, and Old World monkeys of Africa and Asia with narrow noses and nostrils pointing down. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 5 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 New new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 World World PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 10 monkeys monkey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Central Central PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 15 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 flat _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 noses nose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 sideways sideways ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 nostrils nostril NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:amod 25 World World PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 26 monkeys monkey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 Asia Asia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 narrow narrow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 noses nose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 nostrils nostril NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 36 pointing point VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 acl _ _ 37 down down ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come in** | present | hundreds *= hundred* | two big families | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **point down** | gerund | narrow noses and nostrils *not said here* | | | | | down *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:015-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops.lesson:1`. **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 ×2. **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: [Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops/0/) - next →: [Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops/)