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title: From 1960 Jane Goodall watched chimpanzees in Gombe, Tanzania, and s… — How scientists find out: naturalists, Darwin, th… · tree and pragmatics
description: From 1960 Jane Goodall watched chimpanzees in Gombe, Tanzania, and saw one poke a grass stem into a termite mound to fish out termites, showing that chimps make and use tools; before that, many thought only humans made tools. Who acts: Jane, one, chimps, many. A sentence of the lesson «How scientist
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# How scientists find out: naturalists, Darwin, the microscope and wildlife filming, sentence 16

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From 1960 Jane Goodall watched chimpanzees in Gombe, Tanzania, and saw one poke a grass stem into a termite mound to fish out termites, showing that chimps make and use tools; before that, many thought only humans made tools.

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**Who acts:** Jane, one, chimps, many, humans · **What happens:** watch, see, poke, fish out, show, make · **To what, where:** chimpanzees, 1960, grass stem, termites, tools · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How scientists find out: naturalists, Darwin, the microscope and wildlife filming» 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 (Jane, one, chimps, many), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:264-how-scientists-find-out-naturalists-darwin-the-microscope-and-wildlife-filming.lesson:16
# text = From 1960 Jane Goodall watched chimpanzees in Gombe, Tanzania, and saw one poke a grass stem into a termite mound to fish out termites, showing that chimps make and use tools; before that, many thought only humans made tools.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 264-how-scientists-find-out-naturalists-darwin-the-microscope-and-wildlife-filming.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	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1960	1960	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
3	Jane	Jane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Goodall	Goodall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	chimpanzees	chimpanzee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Gombe	Gombe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Tanzania	Tanzania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nsubj	_	_
15	poke	poke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	stem	stem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	termite	termite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	mound	mound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	fish	fish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:acl
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	termites	termite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	showing	show	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	chimps	chimp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
31	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	ccomp	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
34	tools	tool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
35	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	before	before	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	40	obl	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
39	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	nsubj	_	_
40	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl
41	only	only	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	humans	human	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	_
43	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	ccomp	_	_
44	tools	tool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obj	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | past | Jane | chimpanzees |  | 1960 |  | in Gombe | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chimpanzee=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | Jane *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **poke** | infinitive | one | a grass stem |  |  |  | into a termite mound | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent stem=Instrument into mound=Patient |
| 4 | **fish out** | to-infinitive | one *not said here* | termites |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent termite=Theme |
| 5 | **show** | gerund | Jane *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **make** | present | chimps |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 7 | **use** | present | chimps *not said here* | tools |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tool=Patient |
| 8 | **think** *speech: other* | past | many |  |  |  | before that |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 9 | **make** | past | humans | tools |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tool=Product |

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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, 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.

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