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title: All great apes are endangered; orangutans live only on Borneo and Su… — The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas,… · tree and pragmatics
description: All great apes are endangered; orangutans live only on Borneo and Sumatra, where forest is cut down for farms and oil palm, and some products now show if their palm oil was grown without clearing rainforest. Who acts: great apes, orangutans, products. A sentence of the lesson «The great apes: chimpa
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# The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans, sentence 15

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All great apes are endangered; orangutans live only on Borneo and Sumatra, where forest is cut down for farms and oil palm, and some products now show if their palm oil was grown without clearing rainforest.

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**Who acts:** great apes, orangutans, products · **What happens:** be, live, cut down, show, grow, clear · **To what, where:** Borneo, forest, palm oil, rainforest

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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, orangutans, products), 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:15
# text = All great apes are endangered; orangutans live only on Borneo and Sumatra, where forest is cut down for farms and oil palm, and some products now show if their palm oil was grown without clearing rainforest.
# 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	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	apes	ape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	endangered	endangered	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	orangutans	orangutan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Borneo	Borneo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Sumatra	Sumatra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
16	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
19	down	down	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	farms	farm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
28	products	product	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
29	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
30	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
31	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	ccomp	_	_
37	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
38	clearing	clear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	advcl	_	_
39	rainforest	rainforest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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** | present | all great apes |  |  |  |  | endangered *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | present | orangutans |  |  | Borneo and Sumatra |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on borneo=Location |
| 3 | **cut down** | present · passive |  | forest |  |  |  | for farms and oil palm | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for farm=Asset |
| 4 | **show** | present | some products |  |  |  | now |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **grow** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | orangutans's palm oil |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **clear** | gerund |  | rainforest |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent rainforest=Source |

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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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