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title: Gorillas and other great apes build a new nest of leaves and branche… — The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees · tree and pragmatics
description: Gorillas and other great apes build a new nest of leaves and branches every night, or of straw in a zoo. Who acts: Gorillas. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees, sentence 14

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Gorillas and other great apes build a new nest of leaves and branches every night, or of straw in a zoo.

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**Who acts:** Gorillas · **What happens:** build · **To what, where:** new nest

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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 (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:14
# text = Gorillas and other great apes build a new nest of leaves and branches every night, or of straw in a zoo.
# 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	Gorillas	gorilla	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	apes	ape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	build	build	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **build** | present | Gorillas and other great apes | a new nest of leaves and branches |  |  | night | of straw in a zoo | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Product |

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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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**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:14`.

**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/).

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