--- title: A chimp pushes a stripped grass stem into a termite mound, waits for… — Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bo… · tree and pragmatics description: A chimp pushes a stripped grass stem into a termite mound, waits for termites to bite it and pulls it out to eat them. Who acts: chimp. 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 with its dependenc --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bonobo and Ayumu's memory, sentence 7 A chimp pushes a stripped grass stem into a termite mound, waits for termites to bite it and pulls it out to eat them. **Who acts:** chimp · **What happens:** push, strip, wait, bite, pull out, eat · **To what, where:** stripped grass stem, termite mound, stem, chimps 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 (chimp), 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:7 # text = A chimp pushes a stripped grass stem into a termite mound, waits for termites to bite it and pulls it out to eat them. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 chimp chimp NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 stripped strip VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ _ 6 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 stem stem NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 termite termite NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 mound mound NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 waits wait VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 termites termite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 bite bite VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 out out ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:xcomp 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **push** | present | a chimp | a stripped grass stem | | a termite mound | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stem=Theme into mound=Destination | | 2 | **strip** | participle | | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **wait** | present | a chimp *not said here* | | | | | for termites | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **bite** | to-infinitive | a chimp *not said here* | stem | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 5 | **pull out** | present | a chimp *not said here* | stem | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **eat** | to-infinitive | a chimp *not said here* | chimps *= chimp* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | 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:7`. **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): 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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