How scientists find out: naturalists, Darwin, the microscope and wildlife filming, sentence 7

In the Galapagos Islands, Darwin noticed that animals on different islands were slightly different, and he published his famous book in 1859, after more than 20 years of work, because his idea was very surprising and he wanted plenty of careful evidence first.

Who acts: Darwin, animals, idea · What happens: notice, be, publish, want · To what, where: Galapagos Islands, famous book, 1859, plenty · 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 (Darwin, animals, idea), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 Islands	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Islands	det
3	Galapagos	Galapagos	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Islands	compound
4	Islands	Island	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 noticed	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 noticed	punct
6	Darwin	Darwin	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 noticed	nsubj
7	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 different	mark
9	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 different	nsubj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 islands	case
11	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 islands	amod
12	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 animals	nmod
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 different	cop
14	slightly	slightly	ADV	_	15 different	advmod
15	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 noticed	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 published	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 published	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 published	nsubj
19	published	publish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 noticed	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 book	nmod:poss
21	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 book	amod
22	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 published	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 1859	case
24	1859	1859	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 published	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 years	punct
26	after	after	ADP	_	30 years	case
27	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	29 20	advmod
28	than	than	ADP	_	27 more	fixed
29	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	30 years	nummod
30	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 published	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 work	case
32	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 years	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 surprising	punct
34	because	because	SCONJ	_	39 surprising	mark
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 idea	nmod:poss
36	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 surprising	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 surprising	cop
38	very	very	ADV	_	39 surprising	advmod
39	surprising	surprising	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 published	advcl
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 wanted	cc
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 wanted	nsubj
42	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 surprising	conj
43	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 wanted	obj
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 evidence	case
45	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 evidence	amod
46	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 plenty	nmod
47	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	42 wanted	advmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 noticed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	notice	past	Darwin		the Galapagos Islands			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	animals on different islands				different, slightly property	tree rules
3	publish	past	Darwin	Darwin's famous book	1859	year		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Result
4	is	past	Darwin's idea				surprising property	tree rules
5	want	past	Darwin	plenty of careful evidence			first property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot plenty=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: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): R6-punct-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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