--- title: Darwin's finches have beaks shaped for different foods, thick for se… — The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Dar… · tree and pragmatics description: Darwin's finches have beaks shaped for different foods, thick for seeds and thin for insects, and birds with the best beaks for their island's food survived and had more young. Who acts: finches. A sentence of the lesson «The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Darwin's finches and tame sea lio --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea ig…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions/) / 7 # The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Darwin's finches and tame sea lions, sentence 7 Darwin's finches have beaks shaped for different foods, thick for seeds and thin for insects, and birds with the best beaks for their island's food survived and had more young. **Who acts:** finches · **What happens:** have, shape, survive · **To what, where:** beaks, more young 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 (finches), 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:7 # text = Darwin's finches have beaks shaped for different foods, thick for seeds and thin for insects, and birds with the best beaks for their island's food survived and had more young. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 Darwin Darwin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 finches finch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 beaks beak NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 shaped shape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 foods food NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 12 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 24 amod _ _ 24 beaks beak NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 's 's PART POS _ 27 case _ _ 29 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 30 survived survive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 33 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 34 amod _ _ 34 young young NOUN NN _ 32 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Darwin's finches | beaks | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beak=Patient | | 2 | **shape** | participle | | beaks *not said here* | | | | for different foods | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for food=Asset | | 3 | **survive** | past | Darwin's finches *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **have** | past | Darwin's finches *not said here* | more young | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Patient | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions.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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