--- title: Chimpanzees strip leaves off sticks to fish for termites, young chim… — The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobos, okapis… · tree and pragmatics description: Chimpanzees strip leaves off sticks to fish for termites, young chimps learn by watching their mothers, and different chimp groups have different tool habits. Who acts: Chimpanzees, young chimps, different chimp groups. A sentence of the lesson «The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobos, okapis and fo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/159-the-congo-rainforest/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/159-the-congo-rainforest/) / 14 # The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobos, okapis and forest elephants, sentence 14 Chimpanzees strip leaves off sticks to fish for termites, young chimps learn by watching their mothers, and different chimp groups have different tool habits. **Who acts:** Chimpanzees, young chimps, different chimp groups · **What happens:** strip, learn, watch, have · **To what, where:** leaves, sticks, mothers, different tool habits This is a sentence of the lesson «The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobos, okapis and forest elephants» 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 (Chimpanzees, young chimps, different chimp groups), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:159-the-congo-rainforest.lesson:14 # text = Chimpanzees strip leaves off sticks to fish for termites, young chimps learn by watching their mothers, and different chimp groups have different tool habits. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 159-the-congo-rainforest.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1 1 Chimpanzees chimpanzee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 strip strip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 off off ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 sticks stick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 termites termite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 11 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 chimps chimp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 14 by by SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 15 watching watch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 advcl _ _ 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 mothers mother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc 20 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 chimp chimp NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 24 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 tool tool NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 habits habit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **strip** | present | Chimpanzees | leaves | | sticks | | to fish for termites | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme off stick=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **learn** | present | young chimps | | | | | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **watch** | gerund | young chimps *not said here* | chimps's mothers | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme | | 4 | **have** | present | different chimp groups | different tool habits | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent habit=Patient | 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:159-the-congo-rainforest.lesson:14`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×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/). - ← previous: [The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobo…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/159-the-congo-rainforest/13/) - next →: [The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobo…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/159-the-congo-rainforest/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/159-the-congo-rainforest/)