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title: Chimpanzees eat mostly fruit but sometimes hunt monkeys like the col… — The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Chimpanzees eat mostly fruit but sometimes hunt monkeys like the colobus as a team, each taking a role, and share the meat with friends. Who acts: Chimpanzees, each. A sentence of the lesson «The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans» of the biology course of Mova's primary school w
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# The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans, sentence 10

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Chimpanzees eat mostly fruit but sometimes hunt monkeys like the colobus as a team, each taking a role, and share the meat with friends.

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**Who acts:** Chimpanzees, each · **What happens:** eat, hunt, take, share · **To what, where:** fruit, role, meat

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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 (Chimpanzees, each), 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:10
# text = Chimpanzees eat mostly fruit but sometimes hunt monkeys like the colobus as a team, each taking a role, and share the meat with friends.
# 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 ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Chimpanzees	chimpanzee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod
7	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
8	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	colobus	colobus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	nsubj	_	_
17	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	role	role	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	share	share	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **eat** | present | Chimpanzees | fruit but monkeys like the colobus |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient |
| 2 | **hunt** | present | Chimpanzees *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a team; sometimes *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take** | gerund | each | a role |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent role=Theme |
| 4 | **share** | present | each *not said here* | the meat |  |  |  | with friends | 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:10`.

**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 ×4, R8-pos-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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