Evolution myths put right: monkeys, the strongest and missing links, sentence 10

Humans are still evolving, slowly; the spread of milk digestion and resistance to some diseases are examples, over thousands of years, not one lifetime.

Who acts: Humans, spread · What happens: evolve, be, spread · To what, where: thousands, examples, milk digestion

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 (Humans, spread), 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	Humans	human	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 evolving	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 evolving	aux
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 evolving	advmod
4	evolving	evolve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 slowly	punct
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 evolving	advmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 spread	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 spread	det
9	spread	spread	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 examples	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 digestion	case
11	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 digestion	compound
12	digestion	digestion	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spread	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 resistance	cc
14	resistance	resistance	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 digestion	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 diseases	case
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 diseases	det
17	diseases	disease	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 resistance	nmod
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 examples	cop
19	examples	example	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 evolving	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 thousands	punct
21	over	over	ADP	_	22 thousands	case
22	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 evolving	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 years	case
24	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 thousands	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 lifetime	punct
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 lifetime	advmod
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 lifetime	nummod
28	lifetime	lifetime	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 thousands	appos
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 evolving	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	evolve	present · progressive	Humans		thousands of years	still	slowly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over thousand=Location
2	is a	present	the spread of milk digestion and resistance to some diseases	examples				tree rules
3	spread			milk digestion and resistance to some diseases				nom spread «event transitive»: of=patient

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:10.

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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