--- title: A silverback is an adult male gorilla whose back turns silver from a… — The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas,… · tree and pragmatics description: A silverback is an adult male gorilla whose back turns silver from about 12 years old; he beats his chest with cupped hands, not fists, and the pops can be heard about 1 kilometre away. Who acts: silverback, back. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (silverback, back), 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:5 # text = A silverback is an adult male gorilla whose back turns silver from about 12 years old; he beats his chest with cupped hands, not fists, and the pops can be heard about 1 kilometre away. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 silverback silverback NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 adult adult ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 male male ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 gorilla gorilla NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 11 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 12 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 about about ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 16 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 beats beat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 chest chest NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 cupped cup VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 amod _ _ 24 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 fists fist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 pops pop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:parataxis 35 about about ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 37 kilometre kilometre NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:obl 38 away away ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a silverback | a adult male gorilla | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **turn** | present | back | silver | | | year | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent silver=Theme | | 3 | **beat** | present | back | back's chest | | | | with cupped hands and fists | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent chest=Patient with hand=Instrument | | 4 | **cup** | participle | | | | | | | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **hear** | can · passive | | the pops | | | | away *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | 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. **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:5`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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/). - ← previous: [The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos,…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/16-the-great-apes/4/) - next →: [The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos,…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/16-the-great-apes/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/16-the-great-apes/)