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title: Next door the chimpanzees poke sticks into a fake termite mound to f… — The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees · tree and pragmatics
description: Next door the chimpanzees poke sticks into a fake termite mound to fish out honey and sit grooming each other, which is how chimps make friends and make up after a quarrel. Who acts: chimpanzees. A sentence of the lesson «The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees» of the biology course of Mova's prima
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# The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees, sentence 2

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Next door the chimpanzees poke sticks into a fake termite mound to fish out honey and sit grooming each other, which is how chimps make friends and make up after a quarrel.

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**Who acts:** chimpanzees · **What happens:** poke, fish out, sit, groom, be, make up · **To what, where:** Next door, honey, each

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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 (chimpanzees), 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:2
# text = Next door the chimpanzees poke sticks into a fake termite mound to fish out honey and sit grooming each other, which is how chimps make friends and make up after a quarrel.
# 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	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	chimpanzees	chimpanzee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	poke	poke	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	fake	fake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	termite	termite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	mound	mound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	fish	fish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:acl
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
18	grooming	groom	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	_
19	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	18	obj	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	fixed	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
25	chimps	chimp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
27	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	after	after	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **poke** | present | the chimpanzees | Next door |  |  |  | into a fake termite mound | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent stick=Instrument into mound=Patient |
| 2 | **fish out** | to-infinitive | the chimpanzees *not said here* | honey |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Theme |
| 3 | **sit** | infinitive | the chimpanzees *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **groom** | gerund | the chimpanzees *not said here* | each |  |  |  |  | vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | make *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **make up** | present |  |  |  |  | after a quarrel |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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 ×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.

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