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title: Ayumu, a chimp in Kyoto, Japan, could remember where numbers flashed… — How close are apes to us? · tree and pragmatics
description: Ayumu, a chimp in Kyoto, Japan, could remember where numbers flashed on a screen for less than a second, better than most people. Who acts: Ayumu, numbers. 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 
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# How close are apes to us?, sentence 13

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Ayumu, a chimp in Kyoto, Japan, could remember where numbers flashed on a screen for less than a second, better than most people.

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**Who acts:** Ayumu, numbers · **What happens:** remember, flash · **To what, where:** screen · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Ayumu, numbers), 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:13
# text = Ayumu, a chimp in Kyoto, Japan, could remember where numbers flashed on a screen for less than a second, better than most people.
# 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
1	Ayumu	Ayumu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	chimp	chimp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Kyoto	Kyoto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
13	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	flashed	flash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	screen	screen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	obl	_	_
20	than	than	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
25	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	amod	_	_
27	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **remember** | could | Ayumu |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **flash** | past | numbers |  |  | a screen |  | for less; than a second | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on screen=Location |

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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. **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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