Evolution myths put right: monkeys, the strongest and missing links, sentence 1
The famous picture of a monkey walking step by step into a man is misleading too, because evolution is like a bushy tree with many branches, and several kinds of human relatives lived at the same time.
Who acts: famous picture, evolution, several kinds, step · What happens: be, live, step
This is a sentence of the lesson «Evolution myths put right: monkeys, the strongest and missing links» 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 (famous picture, evolution, several kinds, step), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 picture | det |
| 2 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 picture | amod |
| 3 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 misleading | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 step | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 step | det |
| 6 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 walking | compound |
| 7 | walking | walking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 step | compound |
| 8 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 picture | nmod |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 step | case |
| 10 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 step | nmod |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 man | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 picture | nmod |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 misleading | cop |
| 15 | misleading | misleading | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 misleading | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 misleading | punct |
| 18 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 24 tree | mark |
| 19 | evolution | evolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tree | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 tree | cop |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 tree | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 tree | det |
| 23 | bushy | bushy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 tree | amod |
| 24 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 misleading | advcl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 branches | case |
| 26 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 branches | amod |
| 27 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 tree | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 lived | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 lived | cc |
| 30 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 kinds | amod |
| 31 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 lived | nsubj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 relatives | case |
| 33 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 relatives | amod |
| 34 | relatives | relative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 kinds | nmod |
| 35 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 tree | conj |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 39 time | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 time | det |
| 38 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 time | amod |
| 39 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 lived | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 misleading | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the famous picture of a walking step by step into a man | misleading property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | evolution | like a bushy tree; with many branches | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live | past | several kinds of human relatives | time | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | step | step | nom step «act transitive»: by=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:280-evolution-myths-put-right-monkeys-the-strongest-and-missing-links.lesson:1.
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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