--- title: Bearded capuchin monkeys in Brazil crack palm nuts with stones nearl… — Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bo… · tree and pragmatics description: Bearded capuchin monkeys in Brazil crack palm nuts with stones nearly as heavy as themselves, and they choose and carry the best stones. Who acts: Bearded capuchin monkeys, monkeys. A sentence of the lesson «Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bonobo and Ayumu's memory» of the biology cour --- [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/14/) [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/) / 14 # Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bonobo and Ayumu's memory, sentence 14 Bearded capuchin monkeys in Brazil crack palm nuts with stones nearly as heavy as themselves, and they choose and carry the best stones. **Who acts:** Bearded capuchin monkeys, monkeys · **What happens:** crack, choose, carry · **To what, where:** palm nuts, best stones 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 (Bearded capuchin monkeys, monkeys), 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:14 # text = Bearded capuchin monkeys in Brazil crack palm nuts with stones nearly as heavy as themselves, and they choose and carry the best stones. # 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): no change 1 Bearded bearded ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 capuchin capuchin NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 monkeys monkey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Brazil Brazil PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 crack crack VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 palm palm NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 nuts nut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 11 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 as as ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 14 as as ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 13 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 choose choose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 24 amod _ _ 24 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **crack** | present | Bearded capuchin monkeys in Brazil | palm nuts | | | | with stones | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent nut=Patient with stone=Instrument | | 2 | **choose** | present | monkeys *= monkey* | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **carry** | present | monkeys *= monkey* *not said here* | the best stones | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=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:14`. **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): no change. **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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