Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed, sentence 7

Changing an animal by choosing which ones have babies is called breeding, and it shows how much living things can change over many generations.

Who acts: ones, it, living things · What happens: change, choose, have, call, show · To what, where: animal, babies, breeding, many generations · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed» 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 (ones, it, living things), 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	Changing	change	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 called	advcl
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 animal	det
3	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Changing	obj
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	5 choosing	mark
5	choosing	choose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Changing	advcl
6	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	7 ones	det
7	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 have	nsubj
8	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 choosing	ccomp
9	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 have	obj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 called	aux:pass
11	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	breeding	breeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 called	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 shows	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 shows	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 shows	nsubj
16	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 called	conj
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 much	advmod
18	much	much	ADV	_	22 change	advmod
19	living	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 things	amod
20	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 change	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 change	aux
22	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 shows	ccomp
23	over	over	ADP	_	25 generations	case
24	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 generations	amod
25	generations	generation	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 change	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 called	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	change	gerund		a animal		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient
2	choose	gerund				tree rules
3	have	present	which ones	babies		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient
4	call	present · passive		breeding		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»
5	show	present	it			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	change	can	living things		over many generations	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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:381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed.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): 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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