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title: The great apes are four kinds of big, tailless, very clever animals:… — The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The great apes are four kinds of big, tailless, very clever animals: chimpanzees and bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans, and every one of them is endangered. Who acts: great apes, one. A sentence of the lesson «The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans» of the biology course of Mova'
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# The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans, sentence 0

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The great apes are four kinds of big, tailless, very clever animals: chimpanzees and bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans, and every one of them is endangered.

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**Who acts:** great apes, one · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** four kinds

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans» 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 (great apes, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:016-the-great-apes.lesson:0
# text = The great apes are four kinds of big, tailless, very clever animals: chimpanzees and bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans, and every one of them is endangered.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 016-the-great-apes.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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	apes	ape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
8	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	tailless	tailless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	chimpanzees	chimpanzee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	appos	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	bonobos	bonobo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	gorillas	gorilla	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	orangutans	orangutan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
26	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nmod	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	endangered	endangered	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is a** | present | the great apes | four kinds |  |  |  | of big tailless clever animals | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | every one of apes |  |  |  |  | endangered *property* | tree rules |

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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:016-the-great-apes.lesson:0`.

**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): no change. **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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