Evolution myths put right: monkeys, the strongest and missing links, sentence 11
An animal cannot choose to evolve; changes happen by chance in DNA, and the place decides which ones last.
Who acts: animal, changes, place, ones · What happens: not choose, evolve, happen, decide, last · To what, where: DNA · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (animal, changes, place, ones), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 animal | det |
| 2 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 choose | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 choose | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 choose | advmod |
| 5 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 evolve | mark |
| 7 | evolve | evolve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 choose | xcomp |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 happen | punct |
| 9 | changes | change | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 happen | nsubj |
| 10 | happen | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 choose | parataxis |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 chance | case |
| 12 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 happen | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 DNA | case |
| 14 | DNA | DNA | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 happen | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 decides | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 decides | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 place | det |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 decides | nsubj |
| 19 | decides | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 choose | conj |
| 20 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 21 ones | det |
| 21 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 last | nsubj |
| 22 | last | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 decides | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 choose | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not choose | can | a animal | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | evolve | to-infinitive | a animal not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | happen | present | changes | DNA | by chance | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by chance=Location | |||
| 4 | decide | present | the place | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | last | present | which ones | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: 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:280-evolution-myths-put-right-monkeys-the-strongest-and-missing-links.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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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