--- title: A chimpanzee picks a grass stem, strips off the leaves, pokes it int… — Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bo… · tree and pragmatics description: A chimpanzee picks a grass stem, strips off the leaves, pokes it into a termite mound, waits, and pulls it out covered in termites. Who acts: chimpanzee. A sentence of the lesson «Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bonobo and Ayumu's memory» of the biology course of Mova's primary school --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/387-clever-primates-tool-using-chimps-kanzi-the-bonobo-and-ayumu-s-memory/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Ka…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/387-clever-primates-tool-using-chimps-kanzi-the-bonobo-and-ayumu-s-memory/) / 0 # Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bonobo and Ayumu's memory, sentence 0 A chimpanzee picks a grass stem, strips off the leaves, pokes it into a termite mound, waits, and pulls it out covered in termites. **Who acts:** chimpanzee · **What happens:** pick, strip off, poke, wait, pull out, cover · **To what, where:** grass stem, leaves, stem This is a sentence of the lesson «Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bonobo and Ayumu's memory» 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 (chimpanzee), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:387-clever-primates-tool-using-chimps-kanzi-the-bonobo-and-ayumu-s-memory.lesson:0 # text = A chimpanzee picks a grass stem, strips off the leaves, pokes it into a termite mound, waits, and pulls it out covered in termites. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 387-clever-primates-tool-using-chimps-kanzi-the-bonobo-and-ayumu-s-memory.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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 chimpanzee chimpanzee NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 picks pick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 stem stem NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 strips strip VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 off off ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obl 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 pokes poke VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 into into ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 termite termite NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 mound mound NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 waits wait VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 out out ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 26 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:xcomp 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 termites termite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pick** | present | a chimpanzee | a grass stem | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stem=Patient | | 2 | **strip off** | present | a chimpanzee *not said here* | the leaves | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | | 3 | **poke** | present | a chimpanzee *not said here* | stem | | | | into a termite mound | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Instrument into mound=Patient | | 4 | **wait** | present | a chimpanzee *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **pull out** | present | a chimpanzee *not said here* | stem | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **cover** | participle | a chimpanzee *not said here* | | | | | in termites | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in termite=Theme | 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:387-clever-primates-tool-using-chimps-kanzi-the-bonobo-and-ayumu-s-memory.lesson:0`. **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 ×2. **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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