--- title: Real gorillas weigh up to about 200 kilograms and live mostly on the… — The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees · tree and pragmatics description: Real gorillas weigh up to about 200 kilograms and live mostly on the ground, seldom climbing high; a gorilla as big as a building could not exist, because its bones would break under its weight. Who acts: Real gorillas, bones. 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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 (Real gorillas, bones), 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:13 # text = Real gorillas weigh up to about 200 kilograms and live mostly on the ground, seldom climbing high; a gorilla as big as a building could not exist, because its bones would break under its weight. # 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 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 gorillas gorilla NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 weigh weigh VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 about about ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 200 200 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 kilograms kilogram NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 seldom seldom ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 climbing climb VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj 18 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 gorilla gorilla NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 22 as as ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 24 as as SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 building building NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:nsubj 27 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 exist exist VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 ccomp _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 because because SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 32 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 34 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ _ 36 under under ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **weigh up** | present | Real gorillas | | | | | to 200 kilograms | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **live** | present | Real gorillas *not said here* | | | the ground | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Location | | 3 | **climb** | gerund | Real gorillas *not said here* | | | | | high, seldom *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **exist** | could | Real gorillas *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **break** | would | building's bones | | | building's weight | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under weight=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. 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