--- title: Humans have about as many hair roots as chimps, but our hairs are mo… — How close are apes to us? · tree and pragmatics description: Humans have about as many hair roots as chimps, but our hairs are mostly short and fine; less fur and lots of sweat keep us cool, making humans among the best long-distance runners of all animals. Who acts: Humans, hairs, less fur. A sentence of the lesson «How close are apes to us?» of the biology --- [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/17/) [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/) / 17 # How close are apes to us?, sentence 17 Humans have about as many hair roots as chimps, but our hairs are mostly short and fine; less fur and lots of sweat keep us cool, making humans among the best long-distance runners of all animals. **Who acts:** Humans, hairs, less fur · **What happens:** have, be, keep, make · **To what, where:** many hair roots, us, humans 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, hairs, less fur), 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:17 # text = Humans have about as many hair roots as chimps, but our hairs are mostly short and fine; less fur and lots of sweat keep us cool, making humans among the best long-distance runners of all animals. # 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): R1-cc-next ×3, R5-strong ×2 1 Humans human NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 about about ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod 4 as as ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod 5 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 8 as as ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 chimps chimp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 12 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=16:cc 18 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 21 amod _ _ 21 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=21:cc 23 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 sweat sweat NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 27 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 cool cool ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 31 humans human NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 32 among among ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 34 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 38 amod _ _ 35 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ _ 37 distance distance NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 runners runner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 41 det _ _ 41 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nmod _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Humans | many hair roots | | | | as chimps | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | our hairs | | | | | mostly, short *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | our hairs *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **keep** | present | less fur and lots of sweat | us | | | | cool *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | | 5 | **make** | gerund | less fur and lots of sweat *not said here* | humans | | | | among the best distance runners of all animals | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset human=Product | 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:17`. **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): R1-cc-next ×3, R5-strong ×2. **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?, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/17-how-close-are-apes-to-us/16/) - next →: [The lion: why people call it «king of…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/18-the-lion-king-of-the-beasts/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/17-how-close-are-apes-to-us/)