How scientists find out: naturalists, Darwin, the microscope and wildlife filming, sentence 1

Careful notes let other people check and compare; Charles Darwin filled notebooks on his round-the-world voyage on the ship Beagle, then worked for over 20 years before publishing his big idea in 1859.

Who acts: Careful notes, other people, Charles · What happens: let, check, compare, fill, work, publish · To what, where: other people, notebooks, round world voyage, big idea, 1859, Beagle

This is a sentence of the lesson «How scientists find out: naturalists, Darwin, the microscope and wildlife filming» 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 (Careful notes, other people, Charles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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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.

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