--- title: Monkeys groom each other, picking out dirt, dead skin and bugs, whic… — Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops · tree and pragmatics description: Monkeys groom each other, picking out dirt, dead skin and bugs, which keeps fur clean, builds friendships and calms them down. Who acts: Monkeys, dead skin. 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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 (Monkeys, dead skin), 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:13 # text = Monkeys groom each other, picking out dirt, dead skin and bugs, which keeps fur clean, builds friendships and calms them 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): no change 1 Monkeys monkey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 groom groom VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 2 obj _ _ 4 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 fixed _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 picking pick VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 7 out out ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 dirt dirt NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 bugs bug NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 17 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 builds build VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 21 friendships friendship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 calms calm VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 down down ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 26 . . 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 | **groom** | present | Monkeys | each | | | | | vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Patient | | 2 | **pick out** | gerund | Monkeys *not said here* | dirt and dead skin and bugs | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dirt=Patient | | 3 | **keep** | present | dead skin and bugs | fur | | | | clean *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fur=Theme | | 4 | **build** | present | dead skin and bugs *not said here* | friendships | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friendship=Product | | 5 | **calm down** | present | dead skin and bugs *not said here* | monkeys *= monkey* | | | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | 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:13`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops/12/) - next →: [Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops/)