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How scientists find out: naturalists, Darwin, the microscope and wildlife filming, sentence 17

Science changes its mind when new evidence comes, as with the old idea of fierce «alpha» wolves fighting to lead a pack, which scientists later said was wrong for wild wolves.

Who acts: Science, new evidence, fierce alpha wolves, scientists · What happens: change, come, fight, lead, say, be · To what, where: mind, pack · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Science, new evidence, fierce alpha wolves, scientists), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

nsubjnmod:possobjadvmodamodnsubjadvclpunctcasecasedetamodoblcaseamodcasecompoundmarknmodaclmarkxcompdetobjpunctdetnsubjadvmodacl:relclcopccompcaseamodoblpunctrootScienceNOUNchangesVERBitsPRONmindNOUNwhenADVnewADJevidenceNOUNcomesVERB,PUNCTasADPwithADPtheDEToldADJideaNOUNofADPfierceADJ«ADPalphaNOUN»SCONJwolvesNOUNfightingVERBtoPARTleadVERBaDETpackNOUN,PUNCTwhichDETscientistsNOUNlaterADVsaidVERBwasAUXwrongADJforADPwildADJwolvesNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SciencescienceNOUNNumber=Sing2 changesnsubj
2changeschangeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3itsitsPRONCase=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs4 mindnmod:poss
4mindmindNOUNNumber=Sing2 changesobj
5whenwhenADVPronType=Int8 comesadvmod
6newnewADJDegree=Pos7 evidenceamod
7evidenceevidenceNOUNNumber=Sing8 comesnsubj
8comescomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin2 changesadvcl
9,,PUNCT_8 comespunct
10asasADP_14 ideacase
11withwithADP_14 ideacase
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 ideadet
13oldoldADJDegree=Pos14 ideaamod
14ideaideaNOUNNumber=Sing8 comesobl
15ofofADP_20 wolvescase
16fiercefierceADJDegree=Pos20 wolvesamod
17««ADP_18 alphacase
18alphaalphaNOUNNumber=Sing20 wolvescompound
19»»SCONJ_21 fightingmark
20wolveswolfNOUNNumber=Plur14 ideanmod
21fightingfightVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part20 wolvesacl
22totoPART_23 leadmark
23leadleadVERBVerbForm=Inf21 fightingxcomp
24aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art25 packdet
25packpackNOUNNumber=Sing23 leadobj
26,,PUNCT_28 scientistspunct
27whichwhichDETPronType=Int28 scientistsdet
28scientistsscientistNOUNNumber=Plur30 saidnsubj
29laterlateADVDegree=Cmp30 saidadvmod
30saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 packacl:relcl
31wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin32 wrongcop
32wrongwrongADJDegree=Pos30 saidccomp
33forforADP_35 wolvescase
34wildwildADJDegree=Pos35 wolvesamod
35wolveswolfNOUNNumber=Plur32 wrongobl
36..PUNCT_2 changespunct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1changepresentScienceScience's mindvn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
2comepresentnew evidenceas the old idea of fierce alpha wolvesvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3fightgerundfierce alpha wolves not said heretree rules
4leadto-infinitivefierce alpha wolves not said herea packvn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pack=Theme
5say speech: assertpastwhich scientistslate propertyvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6ispastfor wild wolves; wrong propertytree rules
7mindSciencenom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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:264-how-scientists-find-out-naturalists-darwin-the-microscope-and-wildlife-filming.lesson:17.

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, 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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