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title: Like all apes, orangutans, gibbons and bonobos have no tails. — The ape house: orangutans, gibbons, bonobos and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Like all apes, orangutans, gibbons and bonobos have no tails. Who acts: orangutans. A sentence of the lesson «The ape house: orangutans, gibbons, bonobos and how apes think» 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: orangutans, gibbons, bonobos and how apes think, sentence 15

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Like all apes, orangutans, gibbons and bonobos have no tails.

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**Who acts:** orangutans · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** tails

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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 (orangutans), 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:15
# text = Like all apes, orangutans, gibbons and bonobos have no tails.
# 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): no change
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	apes	ape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	orangutans	orangutan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	gibbons	gibbon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	bonobos	bonobo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **have** | present | orangutans and gibbons and bonobos | no tails |  |  |  | like all apes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient |

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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:085-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos.lesson:15`.

**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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