--- title: Some apes learned surprising things with people: Kanzi the bonobo us… — Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bo… · tree and pragmatics description: Some apes learned surprising things with people: Kanzi the bonobo used hundreds of picture symbols, and Ayumu the chimp remembered numbers flashed on a screen for less than a second. Who acts: apes, Kanzi, Ayumu. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (apes, Kanzi, Ayumu), 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:5 # text = Some apes learned surprising things with people: Kanzi the bonobo used hundreds of picture symbols, and Ayumu the chimp remembered numbers flashed on a screen for less than a second. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 apes ape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 learned learn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 surprising surprising ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 9 Kanzi Kanzi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 bonobo bonobo NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 12 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 13 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 symbols symbol NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 Ayumu Ayumu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 chimp chimp NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 22 remembered remember VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 23 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nsubj 24 flashed flash VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 screen screen NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 29 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 32 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:amod 30 than than ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 second second NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 33 . . 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** | past | some apes | surprising things | | | | with people | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | | 2 | **use** | past | Kanzi | hundreds of picture symbols | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Patient | | 3 | **remember** | past | Ayumu | numbers | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent number=Theme clause=Attribute | | 4 | **flash** | past | | | | a screen | second | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on screen=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:5`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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