--- title: A silverback gorilla beating his chest looks terrifying, but he is m… — The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas,… · tree and pragmatics description: A silverback gorilla beating his chest looks terrifying, but he is mostly a gentle vegetarian munching about 18 kilograms of leaves a day, and the chest beat is a show that helps avoid real fights. Who acts: silverback gorilla, he, vegetarian show. 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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 (silverback gorilla, he, vegetarian show), 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:1 # text = A silverback gorilla beating his chest looks terrifying, but he is mostly a gentle vegetarian munching about 18 kilograms of leaves a day, and the chest beat is a show that helps avoid real fights. # 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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 silverback silverback NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 gorilla gorilla NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 beating beat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 chest chest NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 terrifying terrifying ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 13 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:det 15 gentle gentle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:amod 16 vegetarian vegetarian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 17 munching munch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advcl 18 about about ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 19 18 18 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 kilograms kilogram NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obl 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:conj 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod:unmarked _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 chest chest NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 beat beat 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 7 advcl _ _ 33 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 34 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 35 avoid avoid VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 36 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 fights fight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **beat** | gerund | a silverback gorilla *not said here* | his chest | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chest=Theme | | 2 | **look** | present | a silverback gorilla | | | | | terrifying *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **munch** | gerund | | 18 kilograms of leaves a day | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kilogram=Patient | | 4 | **is a** | present | he | a vegetarian show | | | | mostly *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **help** | present | a vegetarian show | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **avoid** | infinitive | a vegetarian show *not said here* | real fights | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent fight=Location | 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. 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