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title: Careful notes let other people check and compare; Charles Darwin fil… — How scientists find out: naturalists, Darwin, th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Careful notes let other people check and compare; Charles Darwin filled notebooks on his round-the-world voyage on the ship Beagle, then worked for over 20 years before publishing his big idea in 1859. Who acts: Careful notes, other people, Charles. A sentence of the lesson «How scientists find out:
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# How scientists find out: naturalists, Darwin, the microscope and wildlife filming, sentence 1

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Careful notes let other people check and compare; Charles Darwin filled notebooks on his round-the-world voyage on the ship Beagle, then worked for over 20 years before publishing his big idea in 1859.

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**Who acts:** Careful notes, other people, Charles · **What happens:** let, check, compare, fill, work, publish · **To what, where:** other people, notebooks, round world voyage, big idea, 1859, Beagle

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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 (Careful notes, other people, Charles), 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:1
# text = Careful notes let other people check and compare; Charles Darwin filled notebooks on his round-the-world voyage on the ship Beagle, then worked for over 20 years before publishing his big idea in 1859.
# 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 ×3
1	Careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	compare	compare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	Darwin	Darwin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	notebooks	notebook	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
16	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:det
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
20	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:det
24	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:compound
25	Beagle	Beagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
28	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	over	over	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
33	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
34	publishing	publish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	1859	1859	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	34	obl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | infinitive | Careful notes | other people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **check** | infinitive | other people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **compare** | infinitive | other people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **fill** | past | Charles | notebooks |  | Charles's round world voyage  the ship on Beagle |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent notebook=Patient |
| 5 | **work** | past | Charles *not said here* |  |  |  | then; year |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **publish** | gerund | Charles *not said here* | Charles's big idea |  | 1859 |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Result |
| 7 | **voyage** |  | Charles |  |  | Beagle |  |  | nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=agent on=place |

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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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**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:264-how-scientists-find-out-naturalists-darwin-the-microscope-and-wildlife-filming.lesson:1`.

**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 ×3. **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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