--- title: Gorillas are almost entirely plant eaters, eating leaves, stems, sho… — The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas,… · tree and pragmatics description: Gorillas are almost entirely plant eaters, eating leaves, stems, shoots and fruit, and a big male can eat about 18 kilograms of plants a day. Who acts: Gorillas, plant eaters, big male. A sentence of the lesson «The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans» of the biology course of Mov --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/16-the-great-apes/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/16-the-great-apes/) / 6 # The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans, sentence 6 Gorillas are almost entirely plant eaters, eating leaves, stems, shoots and fruit, and a big male can eat about 18 kilograms of plants a day. **Who acts:** Gorillas, plant eaters, big male · **What happens:** be, eat · **To what, where:** plant eaters, leaves, 18 kilograms 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 (Gorillas, plant eaters, big male), 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:6 # text = Gorillas are almost entirely plant eaters, eating leaves, stems, shoots and fruit, and a big male can eat about 18 kilograms of plants a day. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Gorillas gorilla NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 almost almost ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod 4 entirely entirely ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 eaters eater NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 acl _ _ 9 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 stems stem NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 shoots shoot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 male male NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 23 about about ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 24 18 18 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 kilograms kilogram NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obl 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl:unmarked _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5: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 | Gorillas | plant eaters | | | | entirely *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **eat** | gerund | plant eaters *not said here* | leaves and stems and shoots and fruit | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | | 3 | **eat** | can | a big male | 18 kilograms of plants | | | day | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kilogram=Patient | 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:6`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos,…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/16-the-great-apes/5/) - next →: [The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos,…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/16-the-great-apes/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/16-the-great-apes/)