Evolution: why giraffes really have long necks, sentence 14

Evolution has no plan or goal; it is just which living things leave more babies in their time and place, and the result can look designed but happens step by step.

Who acts: Evolution, things, result · What happens: have, live, leave, look, design, happen · To what, where: plan, more babies, step

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 (Evolution, things, result), 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	Evolution	evolution	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 plan	det
4	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 goal	cc
6	goal	goal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 plan	conj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 living	nsubj:outer
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 living	aux
10	just	just	ADV	_	12 living	advmod
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 living	nsubj
12	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 has	conj
13	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 leave	nsubj
14	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 living	advcl
15	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 babies	amod
16	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 leave	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 time	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 time	nmod:poss
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 leave	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 place	cc
21	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 time	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 look	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 look	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 result	det
25	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 look	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 look	aux
27	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 living	parataxis
28	designed	design	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 look	xcomp
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 happens	cc
30	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 look	conj
31	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 happens	obl
32	by	by	ADP	_	33 step	case
33	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 step	flat
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	have	present	Evolution	no plan or goal		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Patient
2	live	present · progressive	Evolution			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	leave	present	things	more babies	time	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme
4	look	can	the result			tree rules
5	design	participle	the result not said here			vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	happen	present	the result not said here	step		vn occur-48.3-1 «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:14.

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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