The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Darwin's finches and tame sea lions, sentence 7

Darwin's finches have beaks shaped for different foods, thick for seeds and thin for insects, and birds with the best beaks for their island's food survived and had more young.

Who acts: finches · What happens: have, shape, survive · To what, where: beaks, more young

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 (finches), 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	3 finches	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Darwin	case
3	finches	finch	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	beaks	beak	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
6	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 beaks	acl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 foods	case
8	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 foods	amod
9	foods	food	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shaped	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thick	punct
11	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 beaks	amod
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 seeds	case
13	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 thick	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 thin	cc
15	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thick	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 insects	case
17	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 thin	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 birds	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 birds	cc
20	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 insects	conj
21	with	with	ADP	_	24 beaks	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 beaks	det
23	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 beaks	amod
24	beaks	beak	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 birds	nmod
25	for	for	ADP	_	29 food	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 island	nmod:poss
27	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 food	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 island	case
29	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 beaks	nmod
30	survived	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 have	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 had	cc
32	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 survived	conj
33	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 young	amod
34	young	young	NOUN	_	32 had	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Darwin's finches	beaks		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beak=Patient
2	shape	participle		beaks not said here	for different foods	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for food=Asset
3	survive	past	Darwin's finches not said here			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	past	Darwin's finches not said here	more young		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=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: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): R5-strong ×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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