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title: Jane Goodall sat quietly in a Tanzanian forest from 1960 until the c… — Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Cars… · tree and pragmatics
description: Jane Goodall sat quietly in a Tanzanian forest from 1960 until the chimpanzees trusted her, and she saw something nobody believed: a chimp stripping leaves from a twig to fish termites out of a mound, so chimps make tools. Who acts: Jane, chimpanzees, nobody, chimp. A sentence of the lesson «Conserv
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# Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maathai and the rangers, sentence 1

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Jane Goodall sat quietly in a Tanzanian forest from 1960 until the chimpanzees trusted her, and she saw something nobody believed: a chimp stripping leaves from a twig to fish termites out of a mound, so chimps make tools.

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**Who acts:** Jane, chimpanzees, nobody, chimp, chimps · **What happens:** sit, trust, see, believe, strip, make · **To what, where:** Tanzanian forest, Jane, something, leaves, twig, tools

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maathai and the rangers» 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, chimpanzees, nobody, chimp), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers.lesson:1
# text = Jane Goodall sat quietly in a Tanzanian forest from 1960 until the chimpanzees trusted her, and she saw something nobody believed: a chimp stripping leaves from a twig to fish termites out of a mound, so chimps make tools.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Jane	Jane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Goodall	Goodall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Tanzanian	Tanzanian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
8	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1960	1960	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod
11	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	chimpanzees	chimpanzee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	trusted	trust	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	19	obj	_	_
21	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	22	nsubj	_	_
22	believed	believe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	chimp	chimp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	stripping	strip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	parataxis	_	_
27	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	twig	twig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:nmod
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	termites	termite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
34	out	out	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	mound	mound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
40	chimps	chimp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
41	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
42	tools	tool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obj	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **sit** | past | Jane |  |  | a Tanzanian forest |  | from 1960; quietly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in forest=Location |
| 2 | **trust** | past | the chimpanzees | Jane |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past | Jane | something |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus |
| 4 | **believe** | past | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **strip** | gerund | a chimp | leaves |  | a twig |  | to fish termites out a mound | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme from twig=Source |
| 6 | **make** | present | chimps | tools |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset 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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**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:284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers.lesson:1`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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