--- title: When he beats his chest he uses cupped hands, not fists, and the pop… — The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees · tree and pragmatics description: When he beats his chest he uses cupped hands, not fists, and the pop carries through the forest to say «I am big, stay away», often stopping a fight before it starts. Who acts: silverback, pop. 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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 (silverback, pop), 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:1 # text = When he beats his chest he uses cupped hands, not fists, and the pop carries through the forest to say «I am big, stay away», often stopping a fight before it starts. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 beats beat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 chest chest NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 cupped cup VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ _ 9 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 fists fist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 pop pop NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 18 through through ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:acl 23 « « PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 advcl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 28 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 ccomp _ _ 29 away away ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 » » PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 often often ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 stopping stop VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:advcl 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 before before SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **beat** | present | silverback | silverback's chest | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chest=Theme | | 2 | **use** | present | silverback | cupped hands and fists | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | | 3 | **cup** | participle | | | | | | | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **carry** | present | the pop | | | the forest | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | the pop *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the pop *= pop* | | | | | big *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **stay away** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | away *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **stop** | gerund | the pop *not said here* | a fight | | | | often *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality fight=Eventuality | | 9 | **start** | present | pop | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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:1`. **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, R6-punct-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/84-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees/0/) - next →: [The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/84-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/84-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees/)