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title: Every gorilla has its own pattern of nose wrinkles, like a fingerpri… — The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Every gorilla has its own pattern of nose wrinkles, like a fingerprint, so scientists can recognise each one from photos without catching it. Who acts: gorilla, scientists, nose wrinkles. A sentence of the lesson «The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans» of the biology course of M
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# The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans, sentence 13

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Every gorilla has its own pattern of nose wrinkles, like a fingerprint, so scientists can recognise each one from photos without catching it.

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**Who acts:** gorilla, scientists, nose wrinkles · **What happens:** have, recognise, catch, pattern · **To what, where:** own pattern, one, photos, reflection

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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 (gorilla, scientists, nose wrinkles), 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:13
# text = Every gorilla has its own pattern of nose wrinkles, like a fingerprint, so scientists can recognise each one from photos without catching it.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	gorilla	gorilla	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	pattern	pattern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	wrinkles	wrinkle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fingerprint	fingerprint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
16	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	recognise	recognise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
19	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	photos	photo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	catching	catch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **have** | present | every gorilla | reflection's own pattern of nose wrinkles |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pattern=Patient |
| 2 | **recognise** | can | scientists | each one |  | photos |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 3 | **catch** | gerund | scientists *not said here* | reflection |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **pattern** |  | nose wrinkles |  |  |  |  |  | nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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:13`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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