Evolution myths put right: monkeys, the strongest and missing links, sentence 3

Animals also cannot choose to evolve: changes in DNA happen by chance, and the place decides which ones last, so the giraffe never wanted a long neck.

Who acts: Animals, changes, place, ones, giraffe · What happens: not choose, evolve, happen, decide, last, not want · To what, where: long neck · 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 (Animals, 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	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 choose	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	5 choose	advmod
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	_	12 happen	punct
9	changes	change	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 happen	nsubj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 DNA	case
11	DNA	DNA	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 changes	nmod
12	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 evolve	conj
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 chance	case
14	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 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	12 happen	advcl
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	_	28 wanted	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	28 wanted	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 giraffe	det
26	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wanted	nsubj
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 wanted	advmod
28	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 evolve	advcl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 neck	det
30	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 neck	amod
31	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wanted	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 choose	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not choose	can	Animals			tree rules
2	evolve	to-infinitive	Animals not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	happen	infinitive	changes in 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
6	not want	past	the giraffe	a long neck		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot neck=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:3.

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 ×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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