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title: A gorilla is not a monkey at all: apes have no tail; and the cartoon… — Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops · tree and pragmatics
description: A gorilla is not a monkey at all: apes have no tail; and the cartoon monkey with a banana is wrong too, because wild monkeys never ate our sweet shop bananas. Who acts: gorilla, apes, cartoon monkey, wild monkeys. A sentence of the lesson «Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops» of the biology course of M
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# Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops, sentence 4

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A gorilla is not a monkey at all: apes have no tail; and the cartoon monkey with a banana is wrong too, because wild monkeys never ate our sweet shop bananas.

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**Who acts:** gorilla, apes, cartoon monkey, wild monkeys · **What happens:** not be, have, be, not eat · **To what, where:** monkey, all, tail, sweet shop bananas

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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 (gorilla, apes, cartoon monkey, wild monkeys), 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:4
# text = A gorilla is not a monkey at all: apes have no tail; and the cartoon monkey with a banana is wrong too, because wild monkeys never ate our sweet shop bananas.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gorilla	gorilla	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:nmod
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	apes	ape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	banana	banana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
24	too	too	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
29	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
31	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
32	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	bananas	banana	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **not** **is a** | present | a gorilla | a monkey |  | all |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | apes | no tail |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | the cartoon monkey with a banana |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **eat** | past | wild monkeys | our sweet shop bananas |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent banana=Patient |

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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: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): 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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