--- title: The silverback is the grown-up male leader of a gorilla group; the s… — The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees · tree and pragmatics description: The silverback is the grown-up male leader of a gorilla group; the silver hair on his back appears at about 12 years old. Who acts: silverback, silver hair. 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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 (silverback, silver hair), 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:4 # text = The silverback is the grown-up male leader of a gorilla group; the silver hair on his back appears at about 12 years old. # 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): R4-particle ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 silverback silverback NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 5 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=5:compound 8 male male ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 leader leader NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 gorilla gorilla NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 silver silver ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 appears appear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 about about ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl:unmarked _ _ 26 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:xcomp 27 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | **grow up** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | the silverback | the grown male leader | | | | of a gorilla group | tree rules | | 3 | **appear** | present | the silver hair on silverback's back | old | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:4`. **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): R4-particle ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/84-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees/3/) - next →: [The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/84-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/84-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees/)