--- title: New World monkeys have flat noses with nostrils pointing sideways; O… — Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops · tree and pragmatics description: New World monkeys have flat noses with nostrils pointing sideways; Old World monkeys from Africa and Asia have narrow noses with nostrils pointing down and are closer relatives of apes and of us. Who acts: World monkeys, nostrils. 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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 (World monkeys, nostrils), 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:6 # text = New World monkeys have flat noses with nostrils pointing sideways; Old World monkeys from Africa and Asia have narrow noses with nostrils pointing down and are closer relatives of apes and of us. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 New New ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 2 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:amod 2 World World PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 monkeys monkey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 noses nose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 nostrils nostril NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 9 pointing point VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 10 sideways sideways ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:amod 13 World World PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 14 monkeys monkey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 15 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 Asia Asia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 20 narrow narrow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 noses nose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 nostrils nostril NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 24 pointing point VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 acl _ _ 25 down down ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 closer close ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 29 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 29 relatives relative NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 apes ape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 conj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | World monkeys | flat noses | | | | with nostrils | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Patient | | 2 | **point** | gerund | nostrils *not said here* | | | | | sideways *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **have** | present | World monkeys from Africa and Asia | narrow noses | | | | with nostrils | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Patient | | 4 | **point down** | gerund | nostrils *not said here* | | | | | down *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | present | World monkeys *not said here* | closer relatives | | | | of apes | tree rules | 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:6`. **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, R8-pos-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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops/5/) - next →: [Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops/)