--- title: Wild chimpanzees make tools: they fish for termites with stripped tw… — The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees · tree and pragmatics description: Wild chimpanzees make tools: they fish for termites with stripped twigs, crack nuts with stones and use leaves as sponges. Who acts: Wild chimpanzees, chimpanzees. A sentence of the lesson «The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees, sentence 7 Wild chimpanzees make tools: they fish for termites with stripped twigs, crack nuts with stones and use leaves as sponges. **Who acts:** Wild chimpanzees, chimpanzees · **What happens:** make, fish, strip, crack, use · **To what, where:** tools, nuts, leaves 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 (Wild chimpanzees, 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:7 # text = Wild chimpanzees make tools: they fish for termites with stripped twigs, crack nuts with stones and use leaves as sponges. # 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 ×1 1 Wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 chimpanzees chimpanzee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 tools tool NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 fish fish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 termites termite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 stripped strip VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ _ 12 twigs twig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 crack crack VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 15 nuts nut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 20 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 as as ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 sponges sponge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | Wild chimpanzees | tools | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tool=Product | | 2 | **fish** | present | chimpanzees *= chimpanzee* | | | | | for termites with stripped twigs | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for termite=Theme | | 3 | **strip** | participle | | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **crack** | present | chimpanzees *= chimpanzee* *not said here* | nuts | | | | with stones | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent nut=Patient with stone=Instrument | | 5 | **use** | present | chimpanzees *= chimpanzee* *not said here* | leaves | | | | as sponges | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent leaf=Duration as sponge=Attribute | 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:7`. **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 ×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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/84-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees/5/) - next →: [The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/84-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/84-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees/)