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title: Spider monkeys have a prehensile, gripping tail with bare ridged ski… — Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops · tree and pragmatics
description: Spider monkeys have a prehensile, gripping tail with bare ridged skin under the tip; only some monkeys of Central and South America have gripping tails, and no monkey of Africa or Asia can hang by its tail. Who acts: Spider monkeys, monkey. A sentence of the lesson «Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops»
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# Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops, sentence 5

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Spider monkeys have a prehensile, gripping tail with bare ridged skin under the tip; only some monkeys of Central and South America have gripping tails, and no monkey of Africa or Asia can hang by its tail.

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**Who acts:** Spider monkeys, monkey · **What happens:** have, grip, ridge, hang · **To what, where:** prehensile gripping tail, tip

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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 (Spider monkeys, monkey), 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:5
# text = Spider monkeys have a prehensile, gripping tail with bare ridged skin under the tip; only some monkeys of Central and South America have gripping tails, and no monkey of Africa or Asia can hang by its tail.
# 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 ×3
1	Spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	prehensile	prehensile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	gripping	grip	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	ridged	ridge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	under	under	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	tip	tip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Central	Central	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
25	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	gripping	grip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
27	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
30	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	31	det	_	_
31	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
36	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:parataxis
38	by	by	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **have** | present | Spider monkeys | a prehensile gripping tail |  |  |  | with bare ridged skin | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient |
| 2 | **grip** | gerund |  |  |  | the tip |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **ridge** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **grip** | present | Spider monkeys *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **hang** | can | no monkey of Africa or Asia |  |  |  |  | by tail's tail | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by tail=Location |

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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:5`.

**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 ×3. **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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