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title: In 2024 scientists in Sumatra reported that an orangutan called Raku… — The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas,… · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2024 scientists in Sumatra reported that an orangutan called Rakus chewed a medicinal plant and spread the juice on a wound on his face, the first wild animal seen treating a wound this way. Who acts: scientists, orangutan. A sentence of the lesson «The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas,
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# The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans, sentence 14

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In 2024 scientists in Sumatra reported that an orangutan called Rakus chewed a medicinal plant and spread the juice on a wound on his face, the first wild animal seen treating a wound this way.

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**Who acts:** scientists, orangutan · **What happens:** report, call, chew, spread, see, treat · **To what, where:** 2024, orangutan, medicinal plant, juice, wound, first wild animal · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (scientists, orangutan), 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:14
# text = In 2024 scientists in Sumatra reported that an orangutan called Rakus chewed a medicinal plant and spread the juice on a wound on his face, the first wild animal seen treating a wound this way.
# 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 ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2024	2024	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
3	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Sumatra	Sumatra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	reported	report	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	orangutan	orangutan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	Rakus	Rakus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	xcomp	_	_
12	chewed	chew	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	medicinal	medicinal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	wound	wound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	30	amod	_	_
29	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
31	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
32	treating	treat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:xcomp
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	wound	wound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	det	_	_
36	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl:unmarked	_	_
37	.	.	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 | **report** | past | scientists in Sumatra |  |  | 2024 |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | a orangutan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **chew** | past | a orangutan | a medicinal plant |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient |
| 4 | **spread** | past | a orangutan *not said here* | the juice |  | a wound on Rakus's face |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent juice=Theme on wound=Destination |
| 5 | **see** | participle |  | the first wild animal *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **treat** | gerund |  | a wound |  |  |  | this way *obl:unmarked* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wound=Recipient |

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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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**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 ×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.

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