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title: Chimps groom each other to remove dirt and bugs, but also to make fr… — The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees · tree and pragmatics
description: Chimps groom each other to remove dirt and bugs, but also to make friends and make up after fights. Who acts: Chimps. 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 of every clause.
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# The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees, sentence 8

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Chimps groom each other to remove dirt and bugs, but also to make friends and make up after fights.

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**Who acts:** Chimps · **What happens:** groom, remove, make, make up · **To what, where:** other, dirt, friends

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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 (Chimps), 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:8
# text = Chimps groom each other to remove dirt and bugs, but also to make friends and make up after 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): no change
1	Chimps	chimp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	groom	groom	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	remove	remove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	dirt	dirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	bugs	bug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	also	also	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
15	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	after	after	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	fights	fight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **groom** | present | Chimps | each other |  |  |  |  | vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Patient |
| 2 | **remove** | to-infinitive | Chimps *not said here* | dirt and bugs |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dirt=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | Chimps *not said here* | friends |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product |
| 4 | **make up** | infinitive | Chimps *not said here* |  |  |  | after fights |  | 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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**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:8`.

**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/).

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