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title: Squirrel monkeys travel in big troops and often follow capuchin monk… — The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucan… · tree and pragmatics
description: Squirrel monkeys travel in big troops and often follow capuchin monkeys to find fruit trees, and many eyes spot eagles sooner. Who acts: Squirrel monkeys, many eyes. A sentence of the lesson «The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucans, dart frogs and sloth gardens» of the biology course of Mo
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# The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucans, dart frogs and sloth gardens, sentence 16

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Squirrel monkeys travel in big troops and often follow capuchin monkeys to find fruit trees, and many eyes spot eagles sooner.

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**Who acts:** Squirrel monkeys, many eyes · **What happens:** travel, follow, find, spot · **To what, where:** big troops, capuchin monkeys, fruit trees, eagles

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucans, dart frogs and sloth gardens» 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 (Squirrel monkeys, many eyes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:156-the-amazon-canopy.lesson:16
# text = Squirrel monkeys travel in big troops and often follow capuchin monkeys to find fruit trees, and many eyes spot eagles sooner.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 156-the-amazon-canopy.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	Squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	travel	travel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	often	often	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	follow	follow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	capuchin	capuchin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
11	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
14	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	spot	spot	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	eagles	eagle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | present | Squirrel monkeys |  |  | big troops |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in troops=Trajectory |
| 2 | **follow** | present | Squirrel monkeys *not said here* | capuchin monkeys |  |  |  | often *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monkey=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | Squirrel monkeys *not said here* | fruit trees |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Topic |
| 4 | **spot** | present | many eyes |  | eagles |  |  | soon *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme eagle=Destination |

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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:156-the-amazon-canopy.lesson:16`.

**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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