--- title: Cartoon gorillas like King Kong thump their chests with fists, roar… — The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobos, okapis… · tree and pragmatics description: Cartoon gorillas like King Kong thump their chests with fists, roar and smash things; real gorillas are mostly calm plant-eaters, and chest-beating is a show, not an attack. Who acts: Cartoon gorillas, real gorillas, chest beating. 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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 (Cartoon gorillas, real gorillas, chest beating), 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:2 # text = Cartoon gorillas like King Kong thump their chests with fists, roar and smash things; real gorillas are mostly calm plant-eaters, and chest-beating is a show, not an attack. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 Cartoon cartoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 gorillas gorilla NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 like like ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 flat _ _ 5 Kong Kong PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 thump thump VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 chests chest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 fists fist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 roar roar VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 smash smash VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 15 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 17 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 gorillas gorilla NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 19 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 20 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 21 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 22 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ _ 24 eaters eater NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 parataxis _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 27 chest chest NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ _ 29 beating beating NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 show show NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 35 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 attack attack NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 parataxis _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **thump** | present | Cartoon gorillas like King Kong | gorillas's chests | | | | with fists | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent chest=Patient with fist=Instrument | | 2 | **roar** | present | Cartoon gorillas like King Kong *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **smash** | present | Cartoon gorillas like King Kong *not said here* | things | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | real gorillas | calm plant eaters and a show | | | | mostly *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | chest beating | a show | | | | | 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:159-the-congo-rainforest.lesson:2`. **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 ×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…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/159-the-congo-rainforest/1/) - next →: [The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobo…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/159-the-congo-rainforest/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/159-the-congo-rainforest/)