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title: Jane Goodall began studying chimpanzees in Tanzania in 1960 and foun… — Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Cars… · tree and pragmatics
description: Jane Goodall began studying chimpanzees in Tanzania in 1960 and found that chimps make and use tools, such as twigs stripped to fish for termites. Who acts: Jane, chimps. A sentence of the lesson «Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maathai and the rangers» of the biology course of M
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# Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maathai and the rangers, sentence 5

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Jane Goodall began studying chimpanzees in Tanzania in 1960 and found that chimps make and use tools, such as twigs stripped to fish for termites.

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**Who acts:** Jane, chimps · **What happens:** begin, study, find, make, use, strip · **To what, where:** 1960, chimpanzees, Tanzania, tools, twigs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, chimps), 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:5
# text = Jane Goodall began studying chimpanzees in Tanzania in 1960 and found that chimps make and use tools, such as twigs stripped to fish for termites.
# 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 ×1, 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	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	studying	study	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	chimpanzees	chimpanzee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obj
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Tanzania	Tanzania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	1960	1960	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	chimps	chimp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
17	tools	tool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	21	case	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	twigs	twig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:conj
22	stripped	strip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	termites	termite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **begin** | past | Jane |  |  | 1960 |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **study** | gerund | Jane *not said here* | chimpanzees |  | Tanzania |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chimpanzee=Topic |
| 3 | **find** | past | Jane *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | present | chimps |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 5 | **use** | infinitive | chimps *not said here* | tools |  |  |  | such twigs | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tool=Patient |
| 6 | **strip** | participle |  | twigs *not said here* |  |  |  | to fish for termites | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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, 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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