The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Darwin's finches and tame sea lions, sentence 0

The Galápagos are volcanic islands in the Pacific Ocean on the equator, far from the coast of South America, and the animals that reached them long ago slowly changed to fit each island.

Who acts: Galápagos, animals · What happens: be, reach, change, fit · To what, where: volcanic islands, Pacific Ocean, Galápagos, island

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Darwin's finches and tame sea lions» 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 (Galápagos, animals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Galápagos	det
2	Galápagos	Galápagos	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 islands	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 islands	cop
4	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 islands	amod
5	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 Ocean	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Ocean	det
8	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Ocean	compound
9	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 islands	nmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 equator	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 equator	det
12	equator	equator	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 islands	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 coast	punct
14	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 coast	advmod
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 coast	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 coast	det
17	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 equator	appos
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 America	case
19	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 America	compound
20	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 coast	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 animals	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 animals	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 animals	det
24	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 islands	conj
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 reached	nsubj
26	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 animals	acl:relcl
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 reached	obj
28	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 ago	advmod
29	ago	ago	ADV	_	26 reached	advmod
30	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	31 changed	advmod
31	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 reached	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 fit	mark
33	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 changed	advcl
34	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	35 island	det
35	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fit	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 islands	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Galápagos	volcanic islands and the animals	the Pacific Ocean	on the equator	tree rules
2	reach	past	the animals	Galápagos		ago property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	change	past	the animals not said here			slowly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fit	to-infinitive	the animals not said here	each island			vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=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, 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:180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions.lesson:0.

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 ×2, 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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