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title: Wild capuchin monkeys in Brazil crack hard nuts with stones on a fla… — The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar · tree and pragmatics
description: Wild capuchin monkeys in Brazil crack hard nuts with stones on a flat rock, and some of their stone tools are about 3,000 years old. Who acts: Wild capuchin monkeys, some. A sentence of the lesson «The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its
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# The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar, sentence 14

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Wild capuchin monkeys in Brazil crack hard nuts with stones on a flat rock, and some of their stone tools are about 3,000 years old.

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**Who acts:** Wild capuchin monkeys, some · **What happens:** crack, be · **To what, where:** hard nuts, flat rock

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar» 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 (Wild capuchin monkeys, some), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:086-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar.lesson:14
# text = Wild capuchin monkeys in Brazil crack hard nuts with stones on a flat rock, and some of their stone tools are about 3,000 years old.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 086-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar.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	Wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	capuchin	capuchin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	crack	crack	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	tools	tool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
23	about	about	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	3,000	3000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **crack** | present | Wild capuchin monkeys in Brazil | hard nuts |  | a flat rock |  | with stones | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent nut=Patient with stone=Instrument |
| 2 | **is** | present | some |  |  |  | year | old *property* | 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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**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:086-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar.lesson:14`.

**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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