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title: Apes are clever in ways you can watch: an orangutan puts a sack on i… — The ape house: orangutans, gibbons, bonobos and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Apes are clever in ways you can watch: an orangutan puts a sack on its head when it rains, apes tap puzzles on touch screens, and an orangutan that sees a mark on its face in a mirror reaches up to pick at it, so it knows the reflection is itself. Who acts: Apes, you, orangutan, it. A sentence of th
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# The ape house: orangutans, gibbons, bonobos and how apes think, sentence 1

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Apes are clever in ways you can watch: an orangutan puts a sack on its head when it rains, apes tap puzzles on touch screens, and an orangutan that sees a mark on its face in a mirror reaches up to pick at it, so it knows the reflection is itself.

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**Who acts:** Apes, you, orangutan, it, reflection · **What happens:** be, watch, put, rain, tap, see · **To what, where:** ways, sack, head, puzzles, mark, face · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The ape house: orangutans, gibbons, bonobos and how apes think» 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 (Apes, you, orangutan, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:085-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos.lesson:1
# text = Apes are clever in ways you can watch: an orangutan puts a sack on its head when it rains, apes tap puzzles on touch screens, and an orangutan that sees a mark on its face in a mirror reaches up to pick at it, so it knows the reflection is itself.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 085-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Apes	ape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	orangutan	orangutan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	puts	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	rains	rain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	apes	ape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	tap	tap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
24	puzzles	puzzle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	screens	screen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	orangutan	orangutan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
42	reaches	reach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
43	up	up	ADP	RP	_	42	compound:prt	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	advcl	_	_
46	at	at	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obl	_	_
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	so	so	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
50	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
51	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	reflection	reflection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nsubj	_	_
54	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	55	cop	_	_
55	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	51	ccomp	_	_
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Apes |  |  | ways |  | clever *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **watch** | can | you | ways *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
| 3 | **put** | present | a orangutan | a sack |  | orangutan's head |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme on head=Destination |
| 4 | **rain** | present | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
| 5 | **tap** | present | apes | puzzles |  |  |  | on touch screens | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent puzzle=Instrument on screen=Patient |
| 6 | **see** | present | a orangutan | a mark |  | orangutan's face |  | in a mirror | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mark=Stimulus |
| 7 | **reach up** | present | a orangutan |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **pick** | to-infinitive | a orangutan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at orangutan | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at it=Patient |
| 9 | **know** | present | orangutan |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 10 | **is a** | present | the reflection | orangutan |  |  |  |  | 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 ×2, 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.

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