--- title: Baby chimps drink their mother's milk for about 4 or 5 years; big br… — How close are apes to us? · tree and pragmatics description: Baby chimps drink their mother's milk for about 4 or 5 years; big brains take a long time to grow and learn, so apes and humans have long childhoods, and human babies are even more helpless at birth. Who acts: Baby chimps, big brains, apes, human babies. A sentence of the lesson «How close are apes --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/17-how-close-are-apes-to-us/10/) [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/) / [How close are apes to us?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/17-how-close-are-apes-to-us/) / 10 # How close are apes to us?, sentence 10 Baby chimps drink their mother's milk for about 4 or 5 years; big brains take a long time to grow and learn, so apes and humans have long childhoods, and human babies are even more helpless at birth. **Who acts:** Baby chimps, big brains, apes, human babies · **What happens:** drink, take, grow, learn, have, be · **To what, where:** milk, long childhoods, birth 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 (Baby chimps, big brains, apes, human babies), 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:10 # text = Baby chimps drink their mother's milk for about 4 or 5 years; big brains take a long time to grow and learn, so apes and humans have long childhoods, and human babies are even more helpless at birth. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 2 chimps chimp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 drink drink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 9 about about ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 conj _ _ 13 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 15 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 brains brain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 acl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 27 apes ape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 humans human NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 30 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 31 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 childhoods childhood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 35 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 37 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 38 even even ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:advmod 39 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 40 advmod _ _ 40 helpless helpless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 conj _ _ 41 at at ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drink** | present | Baby chimps | chimps's mother's milk | | | year | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient | | 2 | **take** | present | big brains | | | | time | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **grow** | to-infinitive | big brains *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **learn** | infinitive | big brains *not said here* | | | | | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **have** | present | apes and humans | long childhoods | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent childhood=Patient | | 6 | **is** | present | human babies | | | birth | | helpless *property* | tree rules | 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:017-how-close-are-apes-to-us.lesson:10`. **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, R8-pos-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: [How close are apes to us?, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/17-how-close-are-apes-to-us/9/) - next →: [How close are apes to us?, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/17-how-close-are-apes-to-us/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/17-how-close-are-apes-to-us/)