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title: An adult chimpanzee is about a third stronger than a fit person of t… — The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees · tree and pragmatics
description: An adult chimpanzee is about a third stronger than a fit person of the same weight and can be dangerous, so chimps must never be pets. Who acts: adult chimpanzee, chimps. A sentence of the lesson «The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees, sentence 9

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An adult chimpanzee is about a third stronger than a fit person of the same weight and can be dangerous, so chimps must never be pets.

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**Who acts:** adult chimpanzee, chimps · **What happens:** be, not be · **To what, where:** pets

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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 (adult chimpanzee, 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:9
# text = An adult chimpanzee is about a third stronger than a fit person of the same weight and can be dangerous, so chimps must never be pets.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	adult	adult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	chimpanzee	chimpanzee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det
7	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord
8	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	fit	fit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
23	chimps	chimp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
24	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
27	pets	pet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **is** | present | a adult chimpanzee |  |  |  |  | than a fit person of the same weight; a third *obl*; strong *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | can | a adult chimpanzee *not said here* |  |  |  |  | dangerous *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | must | chimps | pets |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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