--- title: Apes still cannot talk like us, because their throats and mouths are… — The ape house: orangutans, gibbons, bonobos and… · tree and pragmatics description: Apes still cannot talk like us, because their throats and mouths are built differently, and King Louie singing in The Jungle Book is doubly made up: real orangutans live only on Borneo and Sumatra, not in India. Who acts: Apes, King Louie, real orangutans. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Apes, King Louie, real 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:3 # text = Apes still cannot talk like us, because their throats and mouths are built differently, and King Louie singing in The Jungle Book is doubly made up: real orangutans live only on Borneo and Sumatra, not in India. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Apes ape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 still still ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:advmod 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 like like ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 9 because because SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 throats throat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 mouths mouth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 advcl _ _ 16 differently differently ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 19 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 Louie Louie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 singing sing VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 acl _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 Jungle Jungle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 Book Book PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 27 doubly doubly ADV RB Degree=Pos 28 advmod _ _ 28 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 29 up up ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 30 : : PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 31 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 orangutans orangutan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 34 only only ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 Borneo Borneo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 Sumatra Sumatra PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 conj _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 42 advmod _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **talk** | can | Apes | | | | still | like us | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **build** | present · passive | | Apes's throats and mouths | | | | differently *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | King Louie *not said here* | | | the Jungle Book | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in book=Location | | 4 | **make up** | present · passive | | King Louie | | | | doubly *property* | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot | | 5 | **live** | present | real orangutans | | | Borneo and Sumatra | | in India | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in india=Location | 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:085-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos.lesson:3`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. 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