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title: The human brain is about three times as big as a chimp's and uses ab… — How close are apes to us? · tree and pragmatics
description: The human brain is about three times as big as a chimp's and uses about a fifth of the body's energy at rest. Who acts: human brain. A sentence of the lesson «How close are apes to us?» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# How close are apes to us?, sentence 12

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The human brain is about three times as big as a chimp's and uses about a fifth of the body's energy at rest.

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**Who acts:** human brain · **What happens:** be, use · **To what, where:** fifth, rest

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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 (human brain), 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:12
# text = The human brain is about three times as big as a chimp's and uses about a fifth of the body's energy at rest.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	as	as	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	chimp	chimp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	about	about	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	fifth	fifth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obl
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **is** | present | the human brain |  |  |  | time | as a chimp; big *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | present | the human brain *not said here* | a fifth of the body's energy |  | rest |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fifth=Patient |

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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:12`.

**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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