Evolution myths put right: monkeys, the strongest and missing links, sentence 14
Many religious people and scientists accept evolution and also have faith; science explains how living things change, faith answers other questions for believers, and people answer this in different ways and should respect each other.
Who acts: Many religious people, science, things, faith · What happens: accept, have, explain, live, change, answer · To what, where: evolution, faith, other questions, this, different ways, other
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 (Many religious people, science, things, faith), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 people | amod |
| 2 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 people | amod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 answer | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 accept | cc |
| 5 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 people | conj |
| 6 | accept | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 people | acl:relcl |
| 7 | evolution | evolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 accept | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 have | cc |
| 9 | also | also | ADV | _ | 10 have | advmod |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 accept | conj |
| 11 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 explains | punct |
| 13 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 explains | nsubj |
| 14 | explains | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 answer | parataxis |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 living | advmod |
| 16 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 explains | advcl |
| 17 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 change | nsubj |
| 18 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 living | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 answers | punct |
| 20 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 answers | nsubj |
| 21 | answers | answer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 change | appos |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 questions | amod |
| 23 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 answers | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 believers | case |
| 25 | believers | believer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 questions | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 answer | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 answer | cc |
| 28 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 answer | nsubj |
| 29 | answer | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 30 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 answer | obj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 ways | case |
| 32 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 ways | amod |
| 33 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 answer | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 respect | cc |
| 35 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 respect | aux |
| 36 | respect | respect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 answer | conj |
| 37 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 other | det |
| 38 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 respect | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 answer | 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 | accept | present | Many religious people and scientists not said here | evolution | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evolution=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present | Many religious people and scientists not said here | faith | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=Patient | ||||
| 3 | explain speech: assert | present | science | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | live | gerund | science not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | change | things | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | answer speech: assert | faith | other questions | for believers | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | answer speech: assert | present | Many religious people and scientists | this | different ways | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | |||
| 8 | respect | should | Many religious people and scientists not said here | each other | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer other=Stimulus |
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:14.
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 ×3. 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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