Evolution myths put right: monkeys, the strongest and missing links, sentence 7
The famous picture of a line of apes turning into a man is misleading: evolution is a branching bush, not a ladder, and many human relatives lived at the same time.
Who acts: famous picture, evolution, many human relatives · What happens: turn, be, live · To what, where: branching bush
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 (famous picture, evolution, many human relatives), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 picture | det |
| 2 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 picture | amod |
| 3 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 misleading | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 line | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 line | det |
| 6 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 picture | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 apes | case |
| 8 | apes | ape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 line | nmod |
| 9 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 picture | acl |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 man | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turning | obl |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 misleading | cop |
| 14 | misleading | misleading | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 bush | punct |
| 16 | evolution | evolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bush | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 bush | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 bush | det |
| 19 | branching | branching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bush | compound |
| 20 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 misleading | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ladder | punct |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 ladder | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 ladder | det |
| 24 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bush | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 lived | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 lived | cc |
| 27 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 relatives | amod |
| 28 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 relatives | amod |
| 29 | relatives | relative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 lived | nsubj |
| 30 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 bush | conj |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 time | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 time | det |
| 33 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 time | amod |
| 34 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lived | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 misleading | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | gerund | the famous picture of a line of apes not said here | into a man result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into man=Result | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the famous picture of a line of apes | misleading property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | evolution | a branching bush and a ladder | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | live | past | many human relatives | time | vn exist-47.1-1 «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:7.
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): R6-punct-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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