How scientists find out: naturalists, Darwin, the microscope and wildlife filming, sentence 6
Charles Darwin sailed around the world on the Beagle from 1831 to 1836, collecting animals, plants and fossils.
Who acts: Charles · What happens: sail, collect · To what, where: world, animals
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 (Charles), 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 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sailed | nsubj |
| 2 | Darwin | Darwin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Charles | flat |
| 3 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | around | around | ADP | _ | 6 world | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 world | det |
| 6 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sailed | obl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 Beagle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Beagle | det |
| 9 | Beagle | Beagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sailed | obl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 1831 | case |
| 11 | 1831 | 1831 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 sailed | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 1836 | case |
| 13 | 1836 | 1836 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 1831 | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 collecting | punct |
| 15 | collecting | collect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 sailed | advcl |
| 16 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 collecting | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 plants | punct |
| 18 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 animals | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fossils | cc |
| 20 | fossils | fossil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 animals | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | past | Charles | the world | on the Beagle; from 1831 to 1836 | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around world=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | collect | gerund | Charles not said here | animals and plants and fossils | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme |
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:6.
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): 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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