Evolution: why giraffes really have long necks, sentence 11
Alfred Russel Wallace came up with the same idea of natural selection at the same time as Darwin.
Who acts: Alfred Russel Wallace · What happens: come up
This is a sentence of the lesson «Evolution: why giraffes really have long necks» 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 (Alfred Russel Wallace), 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 | Alfred | Alfred | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Wallace | flat |
| 2 | Russel | Russel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Wallace | flat |
| 3 | Wallace | Wallace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 idea | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 idea | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 idea | amod |
| 9 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 selection | case |
| 11 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 selection | amod |
| 12 | selection | selection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 idea | nmod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 15 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 time | amod |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 Darwin | case |
| 18 | Darwin | Darwin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 time | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | Alfred Russel Wallace | time | with the same idea of natural selection | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:278-evolution-why-giraffes-really-have-long-necks.lesson:11.
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. 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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