--- title: A long, hard stare can be a challenge in gorilla language, so keeper… — The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees · tree and pragmatics description: A long, hard stare can be a challenge in gorilla language, so keepers ask visitors not to stare at the gorillas. Who acts: long hard stare, keepers. A sentence of the lesson «The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/84-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees/12/) [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/) / [The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/84-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees/) / 12 # The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees, sentence 12 A long, hard stare can be a challenge in gorilla language, so keepers ask visitors not to stare at the gorillas. **Who acts:** long hard stare, keepers · **What happens:** be, ask, not stare · **To what, where:** challenge, gorilla language, visitors 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 (long hard stare, keepers), 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:12 # text = A long, hard stare can be a challenge in gorilla language, so keepers ask visitors not to stare at the gorillas. # 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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 stare stare NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 6 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 7 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 cop _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 challenge challenge NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 gorilla gorilla NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 keepers keeper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 17 visitors visitor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 stare stare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 gorillas gorilla NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | **is a** | can | a long hard stare | a challenge | | gorilla language | | | tree rules | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | keepers | | visitors | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent visitor=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **stare** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | keepers *not said here* | | | | | at the gorillas | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at gorilla=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:084-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees.lesson:12`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/84-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees/11/) - next →: [The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/84-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/84-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees/)