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title: Orangutans live in Borneo and Sumatra, gorillas, chimps and bonobos… — The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Orangutans live in Borneo and Sumatra, gorillas, chimps and bonobos in Africa, and their forests are being cut down for farms and oil palm, while apes have babies so slowly that their numbers take a very long time to recover. Who acts: Orangutans, apes, numbers. A sentence of the lesson «The great a
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# The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans, sentence 3

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Orangutans live in Borneo and Sumatra, gorillas, chimps and bonobos in Africa, and their forests are being cut down for farms and oil palm, while apes have babies so slowly that their numbers take a very long time to recover.

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**Who acts:** Orangutans, apes, numbers · **What happens:** live, cut down, have, take, recover · **To what, where:** Borneo, forests, babies

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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 (Orangutans, apes, numbers), 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:3
# text = Orangutans live in Borneo and Sumatra, gorillas, chimps and bonobos in Africa, and their forests are being cut down for farms and oil palm, while apes have babies so slowly that their numbers take a very long time to recover.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Orangutans	orangutan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Borneo	Borneo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Sumatra	Sumatra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	gorillas	gorilla	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	chimps	chimp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	bonobos	bonobo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
22	down	down	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	farms	farm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	apes	ape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
31	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:parataxis
32	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
38	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
40	very	very	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	recover	recover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=42:acl
45	.	.	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 | **live** | present | Orangutans |  |  | Borneo and Sumatra and gorillas and chimps in Africa and bonobos |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in borneo=Location |
| 2 | **cut down** | present · passive |  | orangutans's forests |  |  |  | for farms and oil palm | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for farm=Asset |
| 3 | **have** | present | apes | babies |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient |
| 4 | **take** | present | orangutans's numbers |  |  |  | time |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **recover** | to-infinitive | orangutans's numbers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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