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title: Chimpanzees and other great apes bend branches into a fresh sleeping… — More builders: caddis cases, paper wasps, moles,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Chimpanzees and other great apes bend branches into a fresh sleeping nest each night, off the cold ground and away from leopards, and a study found chimp nests had fewer bugs than human beds. Who acts: Chimpanzees, study, chimp nests. A sentence of the lesson «More builders: caddis cases, paper wasp
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# More builders: caddis cases, paper wasps, moles, apes' beds and sand circles, sentence 9

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Chimpanzees and other great apes bend branches into a fresh sleeping nest each night, off the cold ground and away from leopards, and a study found chimp nests had fewer bugs than human beds.

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**Who acts:** Chimpanzees, study, chimp nests · **What happens:** bend, find, have · **To what, where:** branches, fresh sleeping nest, fewer bugs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «More builders: caddis cases, paper wasps, moles, apes' beds and sand circles» 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 (Chimpanzees, study, chimp nests), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:245-more-builders-caddis-cases-paper-wasps-moles-apes-beds-and-sand-circles.lesson:9
# text = Chimpanzees and other great apes bend branches into a fresh sleeping nest each night, off the cold ground and away from leopards, and a study found chimp nests had fewer bugs than human beds.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 245-more-builders-caddis-cases-paper-wasps-moles-apes-beds-and-sand-circles.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Chimpanzees	chimpanzee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=1:cc
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	apes	ape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	bend	bend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
16	off	off	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	19	conj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	leopards	leopard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
29	chimp	chimp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	nests	nest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	ccomp	_	_
32	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	33	amod	_	_
33	bugs	bug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	than	than	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1: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 | **bend** | present | Chimpanzees and other great apes | branches |  | a fresh sleeping nest | night | off the cold ground | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent branch=Material into nest=Product |
| 2 | **find** | past | a study |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | chimp nests | fewer bugs |  |  |  | than human beds | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bug=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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**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 ×2, R6-punct-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.

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