--- title: Count the tails in the ape house and you will count none: apes have… — The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees · tree and pragmatics description: Count the tails in the ape house and you will count none: apes have no tails, which is one way to tell them from monkeys. Who acts: you, apes. 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 --- [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/3/) [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/) / 3 # The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees, sentence 3 Count the tails in the ape house and you will count none: apes have no tails, which is one way to tell them from monkeys. **Who acts:** you, apes · **What happens:** count, have, be, tell · **To what, where:** tails, ape house, none, one way · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (you, apes), 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:3 # text = Count the tails in the ape house and you will count none: apes have no tails, which is one way to tell them from monkeys. # 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 Count count VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 ape ape NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 count count VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 12 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 11 obj _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 14 apes ape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 16 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 17 det _ _ 17 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 acl _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 monkeys monkey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **count** | imperative | you *not said here* | the tails | | the ape house | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme | | 2 | **count** | future | you | none | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Theme | | 3 | **have** | present | apes | no tails | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | | 4 | **is a** | present | | one way | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | tails *= tail* | | | from monkeys | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | 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:3`. **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/). - ← previous: [The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/84-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees/2/) - next →: [The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/84-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/84-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees/)