The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Darwin's finches and tame sea lions, sentence 8
Peter and Rosemary Grant watched the finches' beaks change within just a few years after a drought.
Who acts: Peter Grant, beaks · What happens: watch, change
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 (Peter Grant, beaks), 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 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Grant | compound |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Rosemary | cc |
| 3 | Rosemary | Rosemary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Peter | conj |
| 4 | Grant | Grant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 watched | nsubj |
| 5 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 finches | det |
| 7 | finches | finch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 beaks | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 7 finches | case |
| 9 | beaks | beak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 change | nsubj |
| 10 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 watched | ccomp |
| 11 | within | within | ADP | _ | 15 years | case |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 years | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 years | det |
| 14 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 years | amod |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 change | obl |
| 16 | after | after | ADP | _ | 18 drought | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 drought | det |
| 18 | drought | drought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 years | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | Peter Grant | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | change | infinitive | the finches's beaks | year | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:8.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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