The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Darwin's finches and tame sea lions, sentence 13

Darwin visited the Galápagos on the Beagle in 1835, and the differences between islands helped him explain evolution in his book of 1859.

Who acts: Darwin, differences · What happens: visit, help, explain · To what, where: Galápagos, Beagle, Darwin, evolution, book

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 (Darwin, differences), 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	Darwin	Darwin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 visited	nsubj
2	visited	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Galápagos	det
4	Galápagos	Galápagos	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 visited	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 Beagle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Beagle	det
7	Beagle	Beagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 visited	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 1835	case
9	1835	1835	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 visited	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 helped	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 helped	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 differences	det
13	differences	difference	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 helped	nsubj
14	between	between	ADP	_	15 islands	case
15	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 differences	nmod
16	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 visited	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 helped	obj
18	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 helped	xcomp
19	evolution	evolution	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 explain	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 book	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 book	nmod:poss
22	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 explain	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 1859	case
24	1859	1859	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 book	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 visited	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	visit	past	Darwin	the Galápagos	the Beagle	in 1835	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent galápagos=Co-Agent
2	help	past	the differences between islands	Darwin			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	explain speech: assert	infinitive	Darwin not said here	evolution	Darwin's book of 1859		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evolution=Topic

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:13.

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.

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