How scientists find out: naturalists, Darwin, the microscope and wildlife filming, sentence 9
In the 1970s Peter and Rosemary Grant measured finch beaks changing in just a few years after a drought.
Who acts: Peter, Grant finch beaks · What happens: measure, change · To what, where: Grant finch beaks, 1970s
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 (Peter, Grant finch 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 1970s | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 1970s | det |
| 3 | 1970s | 1970s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 8 measured | obl |
| 4 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 measured | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Rosemary | cc |
| 6 | Rosemary | Rosemary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Peter | conj |
| 7 | Grant | grant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 beaks | compound |
| 8 | measured | measure | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | finch | finch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 beaks | compound |
| 10 | beaks | beak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 measured | obj |
| 11 | changing | change | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 beaks | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 years | case |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 years | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 years | det |
| 15 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 years | amod |
| 16 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 changing | obl |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 drought | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 drought | det |
| 19 | drought | drought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 years | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 measured | 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 | measure | past | Peter and Rosemary | Grant finch beaks | the 1970s | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme beak=Value | |||
| 2 | change | gerund | Grant finch beaks not said here | 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:264-how-scientists-find-out-naturalists-darwin-the-microscope-and-wildlife-filming.lesson:9.
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): no change. 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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