--- title: Chimps also use chewed-leaf sponges and digging sticks, and some in… — Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bo… · tree and pragmatics description: Chimps also use chewed-leaf sponges and digging sticks, and some in Senegal were reported to sharpen sticks to hunt small animals in tree holes. Who acts: Chimps. A sentence of the lesson «Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bonobo and Ayumu's memory» of the biology course of Mova's primar --- [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/10/) [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/) / 10 # Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bonobo and Ayumu's memory, sentence 10 Chimps also use chewed-leaf sponges and digging sticks, and some in Senegal were reported to sharpen sticks to hunt small animals in tree holes. **Who acts:** Chimps · **What happens:** use, chew, dig, report, sharpen, hunt · **To what, where:** chewed leaf sponges, sticks, some, small animals, tree holes 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 (Chimps), 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:10 # text = Chimps also use chewed-leaf sponges and digging sticks, and some in Senegal were reported to sharpen sticks to hunt small animals in tree holes. # 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 ×1 1 Chimps chimp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 also also ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 chewed chew VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 6 leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 sponges sponge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 digging dig VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 10 sticks stick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 17 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:det 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Senegal Senegal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nsubj:pass 16 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 sharpen sharpen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 sticks stick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 hunt hunt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:xcomp 23 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 holes hole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 28 . . 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 | **use** | present | Chimps | chewed leaf sponges | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sponge=Patient | | 2 | **chew** | participle | | | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **dig** | gerund | Chimps *not said here* | sticks | | | | | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stick=Theme | | 4 | **report** | past · passive | | some | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 5 | **sharpen** | to-infinitive | | sticks | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stick=Patient | | 6 | **hunt** | to-infinitive | | small animals | | tree holes | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent animal=Theme in hole=Location | 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:10`. **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. **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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