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title: Humans did not come from chimps; chimps and humans are both great ap… — How close are apes to us? · tree and pragmatics
description: Humans did not come from chimps; chimps and humans are both great apes that changed in different ways from one shared ancestor about 6 to 7 million years ago, like two cousins with the same great-great-grandparents. Who acts: Humans, chimps, great apes. A sentence of the lesson «How close are apes t
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# How close are apes to us?, sentence 1

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Humans did not come from chimps; chimps and humans are both great apes that changed in different ways from one shared ancestor about 6 to 7 million years ago, like two cousins with the same great-great-grandparents.

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**Who acts:** Humans, chimps, great apes · **What happens:** not come, be, change, share · **To what, where:** chimps, great apes, different ways

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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 (Humans, chimps, great apes), 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:1
# text = Humans did not come from chimps; chimps and humans are both great apes that changed in different ways from one shared ancestor about 6 to 7 million years ago, like two cousins with the same great-great-grandparents.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Humans	human	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	chimps	chimp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
8	chimps	chimp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	humans	human	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	both	both	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	apes	ape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
22	shared	share	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	ancestor	ancestor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	about	about	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nmod	_	_
28	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nmod:unmarked	_	_
29	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl:unmarked
30	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	like	like	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	cousins	cousin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
37	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
38	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	_
40	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
41	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	40	punct	_	_
42	grandparents	grandparent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **not** **come** | past · do-support | Humans |  |  | chimps |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from chimp=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is a** | present | chimps and humans | great apes |  |  |  | both *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **change** | past | great apes |  |  | different ways |  | from one shared ancestor; like two cousins with the same great great grandparents; ago *property* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent from ancestor=Initial\_State |
| 4 | **share** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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**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:017-how-close-are-apes-to-us.lesson:1`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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.

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