Evolution simply: why living things change over many generations, sentence 2

Nobody chooses the change and no animal tries to change: dark moths were simply eaten less often on sooty trees, so more dark moths were left to have young.

Who acts: Nobody, animal · What happens: choose, try, change, eat, leave, have · To what, where: change, dark moths, sooty trees

This is a sentence of the lesson «Evolution simply: why living things change over many generations» 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 (Nobody, animal), 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	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 chooses	nsubj
2	chooses	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 change	det
4	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chooses	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tries	cc
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 animal	det
7	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tries	nsubj
8	tries	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 chooses	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 change	mark
10	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tries	xcomp
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 chooses	punct
12	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 moths	amod
13	moths	moth	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 eaten	nsubj:pass
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 eaten	aux:pass
15	simply	simply	ADV	_	16 eaten	advmod
16	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 chooses	parataxis
17	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 often	advmod
18	often	often	ADV	_	16 eaten	advmod
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 trees	case
20	sooty	sooty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 trees	amod
21	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 eaten	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 left	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	28 left	advmod
24	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 dark	advmod
25	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 moths	amod
26	moths	moth	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 left	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 left	aux:pass
28	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 chooses	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 have	mark
30	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 left	advcl
31	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 have	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 chooses	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	choose	present	Nobody	the change			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Theme
2	try	present	no animal				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	change not said to happen	to-infinitive	no animal not said here				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	eat	past · passive		dark moths	sooty trees	often, simply property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	leave	past · passive		dark moths			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	have	to-infinitive				young property	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:073-evolution-simply.lesson:2.

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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