Evolution simply: why living things change over many generations, sentence 6

Darwin's finches on the Galapagos Islands have beaks suited to their food, and Peter and Rosemary Grant saw the average beak size change within a few years after a drought in 1977.

Who acts: finches, Peter · What happens: have, suit, see · To what, where: beaks, average size change

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 (finches, Peter), 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	Darwin	Darwin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 finches	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Darwin	case
3	finches	finch	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 have	nsubj
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 Islands	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Islands	det
6	Galapagos	Galapagos	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Islands	compound
7	Islands	Islands	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 finches	nmod
8	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	beaks	beak	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 have	obj
10	suited	suit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 beaks	acl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 food	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 food	nmod:poss
13	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 suited	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 saw	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 saw	cc
16	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 saw	nsubj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 Rosemary	cc
18	Rosemary	Rosemary	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Peter	conj
19	Grant	Grant	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Rosemary	flat
20	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 have	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 change	det
22	average	average	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 change	amod
23	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 size	compound
24	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 change	compound
25	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 saw	obj
26	within	within	ADP	_	29 years	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 years	det
28	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 years	amod
29	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 change	nmod
30	after	after	ADP	_	32 drought	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 drought	det
32	drought	drought	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 change	nmod
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 1977	case
34	1977	1977	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	32 drought	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Darwin's finches on the Galapagos Islands	beaks			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beak=Patient
2	suit	participle		beaks not said here		to finches's food	tree rules
3	see	past	Peter and Rosemary	the average size change	within a few years; after a drought in 1977		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer change=Stimulus

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:6.

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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