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title: Orangutan babies stay with their mothers for about 7 or 8 years, lon… — The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Orangutan babies stay with their mothers for about 7 or 8 years, longer than any other animal except humans; orang-utan means person of the forest in Malay. Who acts: Orangutan babies, orang. A sentence of the lesson «The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans» of the biology course 
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# The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans, sentence 8

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Orangutan babies stay with their mothers for about 7 or 8 years, longer than any other animal except humans; orang-utan means person of the forest in Malay.

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**Who acts:** Orangutan babies, orang · **What happens:** stay, means · **To what, where:** person

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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 (Orangutan babies, orang), 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:8
# text = Orangutan babies stay with their mothers for about 7 or 8 years, longer than any other animal except humans; orang-utan means person of the forest in Malay.
# 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): no change
1	Orangutan	Orangutan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	mothers	mother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	conj	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
19	except	except	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	humans	human	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
22	orang	orang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	_
24	utan	utan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	_
25	means	means	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
26	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Malay	Malay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **stay** | present | Orangutan babies |  |  |  | year | with babies's mothers; than any other animal except humans | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with mother=Location |
| 2 | **means** | present | orang | person of the forest in Malay |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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): no change. **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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