--- title: Bearded capuchins in Brazil crack hard palm nuts on a flat rock with… — Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops · tree and pragmatics description: Bearded capuchins in Brazil crack hard palm nuts on a flat rock with a heavy stone, and the young take years to learn it by watching older monkeys. Who acts: Bearded capuchins, young. 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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 (Bearded capuchins, young), 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:10 # text = Bearded capuchins in Brazil crack hard palm nuts on a flat rock with a heavy stone, and the young take years to learn it by watching older monkeys. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Bearded bearded ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 capuchins capuchin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Brazil Brazil PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 crack crack VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 palm palm NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 nuts nut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 21 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 22 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 by by SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 27 watching watch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 advcl _ _ 28 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 29 amod _ _ 29 monkeys monkey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 . . 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 | **crack** | present | Bearded capuchins in Brazil | hard palm nuts | | a flat rock | | with a heavy stone | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent nut=Patient with stone=Instrument | | 2 | **take** | present | the young | | | | year | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **learn** | to-infinitive | the young *not said here* | stone | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 4 | **watch** | gerund | the young *not said here* | older monkeys | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monkey=Theme | 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:10`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R8-pos-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: [Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops/9/) - next →: [Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops/)