--- title: Apes are not just worse humans: a young chimp called Ayumu beat grow… — How close are apes to us? · tree and pragmatics description: Apes are not just worse humans: a young chimp called Ayumu beat grown-up people at a quick number memory game, and chimp groups even have their own traditions. Who acts: Apes, chimp groups. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Apes, chimp groups), 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:4 # text = Apes are not just worse humans: a young chimp called Ayumu beat grown-up people at a quick number memory game, and chimp groups even have their own traditions. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Apes ape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 4 just just ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 amod _ _ 6 humans human NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 chimp chimp NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ _ 12 Ayumu Ayumu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 xcomp _ _ 13 beat beat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 16 up up ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 17 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 20 quick quick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 21 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 memory memory NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 chimp chimp NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 28 even even ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 30 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 traditions tradition NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | Apes | worse humans | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **call** | participle | | a young chimp *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **beat** | present · passive | | a young chimp | | a quick memory game | | | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient people=Result | | 4 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **have** | present | chimp groups | chimps's own traditions | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tradition=Patient | 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:4`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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?, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/17-how-close-are-apes-to-us/3/) - next →: [How close are apes to us?, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/17-how-close-are-apes-to-us/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/17-how-close-are-apes-to-us/)