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title: Put your hand next to a picture of a chimpanzee's hand: five fingers… — How close are apes to us? · tree and pragmatics
description: Put your hand next to a picture of a chimpanzee's hand: five fingers, flat fingernails, a thumb that can touch the fingers; you are looking at a cousin. Who acts: you, thumb. A sentence of the lesson «How close are apes to us?» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree 
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# How close are apes to us?, sentence 0

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Put your hand next to a picture of a chimpanzee's hand: five fingers, flat fingernails, a thumb that can touch the fingers; you are looking at a cousin.

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**Who acts:** you, thumb · **What happens:** put, touch, look · **To what, where:** hand, fingers

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How close are apes to us?» 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 (you, thumb), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:017-how-close-are-apes-to-us.lesson:0
# text = Put your hand next to a picture of a chimpanzee's hand: five fingers, flat fingernails, a thumb that can touch the fingers; you are looking at a cousin.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 017-how-close-are-apes-to-us.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	next	next	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	chimpanzee	chimpanzee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	appos	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	fingernails	fingernail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	thumb	thumb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:advcl
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **put** | imperative | you *not said here* | your hand |  |  |  | to a picture of a chimpanzee's hand; next *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal |
| 2 | **touch** | can | a thumb | the fingers |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme finger=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **look** | present · progressive | you |  |  |  |  | at a cousin | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at cousin=Theme |

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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): 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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