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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 with its depend --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Darwin's finches and tame sea lions, sentence 8 Peter and Rosemary Grant watched the finches' beaks change within just a few years after a drought. **Who acts:** Peter Grant, beaks · **What happens:** watch, change 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 (Peter Grant, beaks), 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:8 # text = Peter and Rosemary Grant watched the finches' beaks change within just a few years after a drought. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 Peter Peter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=1:cc 3 Rosemary Rosemary PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 4 Grant Grant PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 watched watch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 finches finch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 ' 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 beaks beak NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ _ 11 within within ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 just just ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl 16 after after ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 drought drought NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | past | Peter Grant | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **change** | infinitive | the finches's beaks | | | | year | | 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](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:8`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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