--- title: There is no single ladder of cleverness with humans at the top: each… — Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bee… · tree and pragmatics description: There is no single ladder of cleverness with humans at the top: each animal is clever in the ways its own life needs. Who acts: single ladder, animal, own life. A sentence of the lesson «Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs» of the biology course of Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs/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/) / [Surprising brains: tool-using fish, co…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs/) / 7 # Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs, sentence 7 There is no single ladder of cleverness with humans at the top: each animal is clever in the ways its own life needs. **Who acts:** single ladder, animal, own life · **What happens:** be, need · **To what, where:** ways This is a sentence of the lesson «Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs» 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 (single ladder, animal, own life), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs.lesson:7 # text = There is no single ladder of cleverness with humans at the top: each animal is clever in the ways its own life needs. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 5 det _ _ 4 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 ladder ladder NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 cleverness cleverness NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 humans human NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 14 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 15 det _ _ 15 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 21 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nmod:poss 22 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:amod 23 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:compound 24 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | present | no single ladder of cleverness with humans at the top | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | each animal | | | the ways | | clever *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **need** | present | animal's own life | the ways *not said here* | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot way=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:388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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