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title: Ayumu, a young chimp in Japan, remembered where numbers 1 to 9 were… — Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ayumu, a young chimp in Japan, remembered where numbers 1 to 9 were after seeing them for less than a second; whether chimps really beat people at this is still argued. Who acts: Ayumu, numbers, chimps. A sentence of the lesson «Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bonobo and Ayumu's memory
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# Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bonobo and Ayumu's memory, sentence 12

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Ayumu, a young chimp in Japan, remembered where numbers 1 to 9 were after seeing them for less than a second; whether chimps really beat people at this is still argued.

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**Who acts:** Ayumu, numbers, chimps · **What happens:** remember, see, beat, argue · **To what, where:** chimps, people · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Ayumu, numbers, 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:12
# text = Ayumu, a young chimp in Japan, remembered where numbers 1 to 9 were after seeing them for less than a second; whether chimps really beat people at this is still argued.
# 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	Ayumu	Ayumu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	chimp	chimp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
11	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
12	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:appos
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	obl	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
25	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	chimps	chimp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
27	really	really	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	beat	beat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	csubj:pass	_	_
29	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
30	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:nsubj:pass
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
33	still	still	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	argued	argue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **remember** | past | Ayumu |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **see** | past · progressive | numbers | chimps *= chimp* |  |  |  | for less; than a second | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 3 | **beat** | present | chimps | people |  |  |  | this *obl* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location people=Theme |
| 4 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present · passive |  |  |  |  | still |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V» |

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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:387-clever-primates-tool-using-chimps-kanzi-the-bonobo-and-ayumu-s-memory.lesson:12`.

**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.

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

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