--- title: In the monkey house a spider monkey hangs by its tail alone like a f… — The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar · tree and pragmatics description: In the monkey house a spider monkey hangs by its tail alone like a fifth hand and eats with both hands, a howler monkey booms so loud it fills the building, and a capuchin cracks a nut with a stone like a hammer. Who acts: spider monkey, hand, capuchin. 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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 (spider monkey, hand, capuchin), 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:2 # text = In the monkey house a spider monkey hangs by its tail alone like a fifth hand and eats with both hands, a howler monkey booms so loud it fills the building, and a capuchin cracks a nut with a stone like a hammer. # 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): R5-strong ×5, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 monkey monkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:obl 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det 6 spider spider NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:compound 7 monkey monkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:compound 8 hangs hang VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 9 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 alone alone ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 like like ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 fifth fifth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nmod 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 21 det _ _ 21 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 howler howler NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 monkey monkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 booms boom VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 27 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:advmod 28 loud loud ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 fills fill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 building building NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 capuchin capuchin NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 cracks crack VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 nut nut NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 with with ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 43 like like ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 hammer hammer NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=42:nmod 46 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hang** | present | a spider monkey | | | the monkey house | | by house's tail; like a fifth hand | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in house=Location | | 2 | **eat** | present | a spider monkey *not said here* | | | | | with both hands | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **boom** | present | a spider monkey *not said here* | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **fill** | present | hand | the building | | | | loud *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent building=Patient | | 5 | **crack** | present | a capuchin | a nut | | | | with a stone; like a hammer | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent nut=Patient with stone=Instrument | 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:086-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar.lesson:2`. **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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×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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