Evolution myths put right: monkeys, the strongest and missing links, sentence 13
When a Pokémon evolves, one creature changes in its life, which is like metamorphosis or growing up, not evolution; real evolution happens to groups over generations.
Who acts: Pokémon, one creature, life, real evolution · What happens: evolve, change, be, grow up, happen · To what, where: life
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 (Pokémon, one creature, life, real evolution), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 evolves | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Pokémon | det |
| 3 | Pokémon | Pokémon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 evolves | nsubj |
| 4 | evolves | evolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 changes | punct |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 creature | nummod |
| 7 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 changes | nsubj |
| 8 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 evolves | parataxis |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 life | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 life | nmod:poss |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 changes | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 metamorphosis | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 metamorphosis | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 metamorphosis | cop |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 metamorphosis | case |
| 16 | metamorphosis | metamorphosis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 life | acl:relcl |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 growing | cc |
| 18 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 metamorphosis | conj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 growing | compound:prt |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 evolution | punct |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 evolution | advmod |
| 22 | evolution | evolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 metamorphosis | conj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 happens | punct |
| 24 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 evolution | amod |
| 25 | evolution | evolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 happens | nsubj |
| 26 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 evolves | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 groups | case |
| 28 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 happens | obl |
| 29 | over | over | ADP | _ | 30 generations | case |
| 30 | generations | generation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 groups | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 evolves | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | evolve | present | a Pokémon | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | change | one creature | creature's life | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | creature's life | like metamorphosis and evolution | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | grow up | gerund | creature's life not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | happen | present | real evolution | to groups over generations | 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:280-evolution-myths-put-right-monkeys-the-strongest-and-missing-links.lesson:13.
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): R7-rel-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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