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title: Darwin visited the Galápagos on the Beagle in 1835, and the differen… — The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Dar… · tree and pragmatics
description: Darwin visited the Galápagos on the Beagle in 1835, and the differences between islands helped him explain evolution in his book of 1859. Who acts: Darwin, differences. A sentence of the lesson «The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Darwin's finches and tame sea lions» of the biology course o
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# The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Darwin's finches and tame sea lions, sentence 13

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Darwin visited the Galápagos on the Beagle in 1835, and the differences between islands helped him explain evolution in his book of 1859.

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**Who acts:** Darwin, differences · **What happens:** visit, help, explain · **To what, where:** Galápagos, Beagle, Darwin, evolution, book

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Darwin's finches and tame sea lions» 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 (Darwin, differences), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions.lesson:13
# text = Darwin visited the Galápagos on the Beagle in 1835, and the differences between islands helped him explain evolution in his book of 1859.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	Darwin	Darwin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	visited	visit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Galápagos	Galápagos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Beagle	Beagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	1835	1835	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	differences	difference	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
14	between	between	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	explain	explain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	evolution	evolution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	1859	1859	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **visit** | past | Darwin | the Galápagos |  | the Beagle |  | in 1835 | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent galápagos=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **help** | past | the differences between islands | Darwin |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 3 | **explain** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Darwin *not said here* | evolution |  | Darwin's book of 1859 |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evolution=Topic |

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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.

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**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.

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