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title: People and chimpanzees share about 98 to 99 per cent of their DNA in… — The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees · tree and pragmatics
description: People and chimpanzees share about 98 to 99 per cent of their DNA in the parts that can be lined up; we are cousins sharing an ancestor from about 6 to 7 million years ago. Who acts: People, we, cousins. A sentence of the lesson «The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees» of the biology course of Mova
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# The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees, sentence 10

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People and chimpanzees share about 98 to 99 per cent of their DNA in the parts that can be lined up; we are cousins sharing an ancestor from about 6 to 7 million years ago.

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**Who acts:** People, we, cousins · **What happens:** share, line up, be · **To what, where:** 98, parts, cousins, ancestor, 6

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees» 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 (People, we, cousins), 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:10
# text = People and chimpanzees share about 98 to 99 per cent of their DNA in the parts that can be lined up; we are cousins sharing an ancestor from about 6 to 7 million years ago.
# 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 ×3
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	chimpanzees	chimpanzee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	share	share	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	98	98	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:case
8	99	99	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	per	per	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	cent	cent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	DNA	DNA	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	lined	line	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	cousins	cousin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	_
26	sharing	share	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	ancestor	ancestor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	about	about	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	obl	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	nmod	_	_
34	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
36	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **share** | present | People and chimpanzees | 98 |  | the parts |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **line up** | can · passive |  | the parts |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
| 3 | **is a** | present | we | cousins |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **share** | gerund | cousins *not said here* | a ancestor |  | 6 to 7 | year |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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 ×3. **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/).

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