Evolution myths put right: monkeys, the strongest and missing links, sentence 5
People did not come from today's monkeys or chimps; we share common ancestors with them, and chimps have been evolving for exactly as long as we have.
Who acts: People, we, chimps · What happens: not come, share, evolve, have · To what, where: common ancestors
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 (People, we, chimps), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 come | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 come | advmod |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 monkeys | case |
| 6 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 monkeys | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 today | case |
| 8 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 come | obl |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 chimps | cc |
| 10 | chimps | chimp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 monkeys | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 share | punct |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 share | nsubj |
| 13 | share | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | parataxis |
| 14 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ancestors | amod |
| 15 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 share | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 share | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 evolving | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 evolving | cc |
| 20 | chimps | chimp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 evolving | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 evolving | aux |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 evolving | aux |
| 23 | evolving | evolve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 share | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 long | case |
| 25 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 27 long | advmod |
| 26 | as | as | ADV | _ | 27 long | advmod |
| 27 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 evolving | obl |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 have | mark |
| 29 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 have | nsubj |
| 30 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 long | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | 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 come | past · do-support | People | from today's monkeys or chimps | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from monkey=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | share | present | we | common ancestors | with People | tree rules | |||
| 3 | evolve | present · perfect · progressive | chimps | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | have | present | we | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:5.
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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