Natural selection we can watch: moths, finches, germs and tuskless elephants, sentence 7
Peter and Rosemary Grant measured finch beaks on the Galapagos for about 40 years.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: measure · To what, where: finch beaks, Galapagos
This is a sentence of the lesson «Natural selection we can watch: moths, finches, germs and tuskless elephants» 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), 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 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 measured | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Rosemary | cc |
| 3 | Rosemary | Rosemary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Peter | conj |
| 4 | Grant | Grant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Rosemary | flat |
| 5 | measured | measure | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | finch | finch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 beaks | compound |
| 7 | beaks | beak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 measured | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 Galapagos | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Galapagos | det |
| 10 | Galapagos | Galapagos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 measured | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 years | case |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 40 | advmod |
| 13 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 years | nummod |
| 14 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 measured | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 measured | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | measure | past | Peter and Rosemary | finch beaks | the Galapagos | year | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme beak=Value |
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:279-natural-selection-we-can-watch-moths-finches-germs-and-tuskless-elephants.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): 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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