--- title: Swinging arm over arm is called brachiation; gibbons are the fastest… — The ape house: orangutans, gibbons, bonobos and… · tree and pragmatics description: Swinging arm over arm is called brachiation; gibbons are the fastest apes in the trees, reported at around 50 kilometres per hour. Who acts: Swinging, gibbons. A sentence of the lesson «The ape house: orangutans, gibbons, bonobos and how apes think» of the biology course of Mova's primary school wit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The ape house: orangutans, gibbons, bo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos/) / 9 # The ape house: orangutans, gibbons, bonobos and how apes think, sentence 9 Swinging arm over arm is called brachiation; gibbons are the fastest apes in the trees, reported at around 50 kilometres per hour. **Who acts:** Swinging, gibbons · **What happens:** swing, call, be, report · **To what, where:** arm, brachiation, fastest apes, trees, 50 kilometres · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Swinging, gibbons), 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:9 # text = Swinging arm over arm is called brachiation; gibbons are the fastest apes in the trees, reported at around 50 kilometres per hour. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Swinging swing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 csubj:pass _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advcl 2 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 over over ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 brachiation brachiation NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 xcomp _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct 9 gibbons gibbon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 fastest fast ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 13 amod _ _ 13 apes ape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 around around ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 23 per per ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swing** | gerund | | arm | | arm | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent arm=Theme over arm=Trajectory | | 2 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive | Swinging | brachiation | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» | | 3 | **is a** | present | gibbons | the fastest apes | | the trees | | | tree rules | | 4 | **report** | participle | | the fastest apes *not said here* | | 50 kilometres per hour | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:9`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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. 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