--- title: Young chimps learn tricks like this by watching their mothers for ye… — Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bo… · tree and pragmatics description: Young chimps learn tricks like this by watching their mothers for years, the way you learned to tie your laces by watching someone. Who acts: Young chimps, you. 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 --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bonobo and Ayumu's memory, sentence 2 Young chimps learn tricks like this by watching their mothers for years, the way you learned to tie your laces by watching someone. **Who acts:** Young chimps, you · **What happens:** learn, watch, tie · **To what, where:** tricks, mothers, way, laces, someone 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 chimps, you), 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:2 # text = Young chimps learn tricks like this by watching their mothers for years, the way you learned to tie your laces by watching someone. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 chimps chimp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 nmod _ _ 7 by by SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 8 watching watch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 mothers mother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 learned learn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 tie tie VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 laces lace NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 by by SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 23 watching watch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 24 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 23 obj _ _ 25 . . 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 | **learn** | present | Young chimps | tricks | | | | like this | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Topic | | 2 | **watch** | gerund | Young chimps *not said here* | chimps's mothers | | | year | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme | | 3 | **learn** | past | you | the way *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **tie** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | your laces | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lace=Patient | | 5 | **watch** | gerund | you *not said here* | someone | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=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:2`. **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): R6-punct-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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