Evolution myths put right: monkeys, the strongest and missing links, sentence 9
Evolution is supported by fossils, by DNA and by changes we can watch happening today.
Who acts: fossils, we, changes · What happens: support, watch, happen · To what, where: Evolution, changes
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 (fossils, we, changes), 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 | Evolution | evolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 supported | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 supported | aux:pass |
| 3 | supported | support | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 fossils | case |
| 5 | fossils | fossil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 supported | obl:agent |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 DNA | punct |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 DNA | case |
| 8 | DNA | DNA | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fossils | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 changes | cc |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 changes | case |
| 11 | changes | change | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fossils | conj |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 watch | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 watch | aux |
| 14 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 changes | acl:relcl |
| 15 | happening | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 watch | xcomp |
| 16 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 happening | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 supported | 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 | support | present · passive | fossils and DNA and changes | Evolution | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | watch | can | we | changes not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | happen | gerund | changes not said here | today | 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:9.
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): no change. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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