--- title: Gorillas beat their chests with cupped hands, making a popping sound… — The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees · tree and pragmatics description: Gorillas beat their chests with cupped hands, making a popping sound that can carry about a kilometre; it shows size and often prevents fights. Who acts: Gorillas, popping sound, kilometre. 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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 (Gorillas, popping sound, kilometre), 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:5 # text = Gorillas beat their chests with cupped hands, making a popping sound that can carry about a kilometre; it shows size and often prevents fights. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Gorillas gorilla NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 beat beat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 chests chest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 cupped cup VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ _ 7 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 popping pop VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 amod _ _ 12 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl:relcl _ _ 16 about about ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 kilometre kilometre NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obl 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 22 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 often often ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 prevents prevent VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 26 fights fight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **beat** | present | Gorillas | gorillas's chests | | | | with cupped hands | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent chest=Patient with hand=Instrument | | 2 | **cup** | participle | | | | | | | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **make** | gerund | Gorillas *not said here* | a popping sound | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product | | 4 | **pop** | gerund | | | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **carry** | can | a popping sound | a kilometre | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kilometre=Theme | | 6 | **show** | present | kilometre | size | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent size=Recipient | | 7 | **prevent** | present | kilometre *not said here* | fights | | | | often *property* | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer fight=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:5`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/84-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees/4/) - next →: [The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/84-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/84-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees/)