--- title: In Japan a young female macaque began washing sandy sweet potatoes i… — Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bo… · tree and pragmatics description: In Japan a young female macaque began washing sandy sweet potatoes in water, and the habit spread through her troop by copying. Who acts: young female macaque, habit. A sentence of the lesson «Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bonobo and Ayumu's memory» of the biology course of Mova's pr --- [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/13/) [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/) / 13 # Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bonobo and Ayumu's memory, sentence 13 In Japan a young female macaque began washing sandy sweet potatoes in water, and the habit spread through her troop by copying. **Who acts:** young female macaque, habit · **What happens:** begin, wash, spread, copy · **To what, where:** Japan, sandy sweet potatoes, water, troop 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 (young female macaque, habit), 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:13 # text = In Japan a young female macaque began washing sandy sweet potatoes in water, and the habit spread through her troop by copying. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Japan Japan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 female female ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 macaque macaque NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 washing wash VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 xcomp _ _ 9 sandy sandy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 potatoes potato NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:det 17 habit habit NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 spread spread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 19 through through ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 troop troop NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 by by SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 23 copying copy VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 advcl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | a young female macaque | | | Japan | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **wash** | gerund | a young female macaque *not said here* | sandy sweet potatoes | | water | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent potato=Patient | | 3 | **spread** | past | the habit | | | Japan's troop | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through troop=Location | | 4 | **copy** | gerund | a young female macaque *not said here* | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:13`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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