--- title: Many monkeys of Central and South America have a gripping, or prehen… — The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar · tree and pragmatics description: Many monkeys of Central and South America have a gripping, or prehensile, tail that holds branches like a fifth hand, with ridged skin under the tip; no African or Asian monkeys have one. Who acts: Many monkeys, gripping tail, African monkeys. 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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 (Many monkeys, gripping tail, African monkeys), 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:7 # text = Many monkeys of Central and South America have a gripping, or prehensile, tail that holds branches like a fifth hand, with ridged skin under the tip; no African or Asian monkeys have one. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 monkeys monkey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Central Central PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 8 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 10 gripping grip ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 prehensile prehensile ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 branches branch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 like like ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 fifth fifth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 ridged ridge VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 amod _ _ 26 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 appos _ _ 27 under under ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 tip tip NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 35 det _ _ 32 African African ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 33 or or CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 Asian Asian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 conj _ _ 35 monkeys monkey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 36 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 37 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Many monkeys of Central and South America | a gripping tail | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | | 2 | **hold** | present | a gripping tail | branches | | | | like a fifth hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme | | 3 | **ridge** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | present | no African monkeys | one | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | 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:7`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The monkey house and the lemurs of Mad…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar/6/) - next →: [The monkey house and the lemurs of Mad…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar/)