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title: Science about living things starts with looking very carefully: a gi… — How scientists find out: naturalists, Darwin, th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Science about living things starts with looking very carefully: a girl in the park who draws a beetle in her notebook, writes the date and counts its legs is doing what naturalists have always done. Who acts: Science, girl, naturalists. A sentence of the lesson «How scientists find out: naturalists,
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# How scientists find out: naturalists, Darwin, the microscope and wildlife filming, sentence 0

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Science about living things starts with looking very carefully: a girl in the park who draws a beetle in her notebook, writes the date and counts its legs is doing what naturalists have always done.

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**Who acts:** Science, girl, naturalists · **What happens:** start, look, draw, write, count, do · **To what, where:** beetle, notebook, date, legs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How scientists find out: naturalists, Darwin, the microscope and wildlife filming» 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 (Science, girl, naturalists), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:264-how-scientists-find-out-naturalists-darwin-the-microscope-and-wildlife-filming.lesson:0
# text = Science about living things starts with looking very carefully: a girl in the park who draws a beetle in her notebook, writes the date and counts its legs is doing what naturalists have always done.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 264-how-scientists-find-out-naturalists-darwin-the-microscope-and-wildlife-filming.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:ccomp
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	draws	draw	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	beetle	beetle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	notebook	notebook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	writes	write	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	counts	count	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
29	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
33	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	37	obj	_	_
34	naturalists	naturalist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
35	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	37	advmod	_	_
37	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	ccomp	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **start** | present | Science about living things |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | Science about living things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **draw** | present | a girl in the park | a beetle |  | girl's notebook |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beetle=Theme in notebook=Destination |
| 4 | **write** | present | a girl in the park *not said here* | the date |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Theme |
| 5 | **count** | present | a girl in the park *not said here* | Science's legs |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme |
| 6 | **do** | present · progressive | a girl in the park |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **do** | present · perfect | naturalists |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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