--- title: In the ape house a huge silverback sits quietly, chewing leaves and… — The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees · tree and pragmatics description: In the ape house a huge silverback sits quietly, chewing leaves and watching his family, because real gorillas are mostly calm, shy plant-eaters, nothing like King Kong roaring on top of a skyscraper. Who acts: huge silverback, real gorillas. 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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 (huge silverback, real gorillas), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:084-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees.lesson:0 # text = In the ape house a huge silverback sits quietly, chewing leaves and watching his family, because real gorillas are mostly calm, shy plant-eaters, nothing like King Kong roaring on top of a skyscraper. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 084-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees.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 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 ape ape NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 silverback silverback NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 chewing chew VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 12 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 watching watch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 conj _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 18 because because SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 19 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 gorillas gorilla NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 22 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 shy shy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 26 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ _ 28 eaters eater NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 advcl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 28 conj _ _ 31 like like ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 Kong Kong PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 flat _ _ 34 roaring roar VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 acl _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 skyscraper skyscraper NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | present | a huge silverback | | | the ape house | | quietly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in house=Location | | 2 | **chew** | gerund | a huge silverback *not said here* | leaves | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | | 3 | **watch** | gerund | a huge silverback *not said here* | silverback's family | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | real gorillas | calm shy plant eaters | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **roar** | gerund | | | | top of a skyscraper | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=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:084-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees.lesson:0`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The elephant house: herds, feet, food…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/83-elephant-house-herds-feet-food-mouse-myth/17/) - next →: [The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/84-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/84-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees/)