--- title: Baboons live in big troops on the ground in Africa, sometimes 50 or… — Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops · tree and pragmatics description: Baboons live in big troops on the ground in Africa, sometimes 50 or more, with a ranking order, so many eyes spot lions and leopards and the troop defends each other; big males have teeth longer than a lion's, so never feed them or open car windows. Who acts: Baboons, many eyes, troop, big males. 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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 (Baboons, many eyes, troop, big males), 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:7 # text = Baboons live in big troops on the ground in Africa, sometimes 50 or more, with a ranking order, so many eyes spot lions and leopards and the troop defends each other; big males have teeth longer than a lion's, so never feed them or open car windows. # 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 ×2 1 Baboons baboon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 troops troops NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 2 obl _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 13 advmod _ _ 13 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:appos 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 ranking ranking NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 spot spot VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 26 lions lion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:conj 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 leopards leopard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 troop troop NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 defends defend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 33 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 32 obj _ _ 34 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 fixed _ _ 35 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 males male NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 38 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 39 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ _ 40 longer long ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 39 amod _ _ 41 than than ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 44 's 's PART POS _ 43 case _ _ 45 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 46 so so ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 47 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 48 advmod _ _ 48 feed feed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 conj _ _ 49 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 obj _ _ 50 or or CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 51 open open VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 48 conj _ _ 52 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 compound _ _ 53 windows window NOUN NNS Number=Plur 51 obj _ _ 54 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **live** | present | Baboons | | | big troops | | on the ground; in Africa; with a ranking order | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in troops=Location | | 2 | **spot** | present | many eyes | | lions and leopards | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lion=Destination | | 3 | **defend** | present | the troop | each | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Beneficiary | | 4 | **have** | present | big males | teeth | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | | 5 | **not** **feed** | infinitive | big males *not said here* | teeth *= tooth* | | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | | 6 | **open** | infinitive | big males *not said here* | car windows | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=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:7`. **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 ×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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops/6/) - next →: [Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops/)