--- title: Science changes its mind when new evidence comes, as with the old id… — How scientists find out: naturalists, Darwin, th… · tree and pragmatics description: Science changes its mind when new evidence comes, as with the old idea of fierce «alpha» wolves fighting to lead a pack, which scientists later said was wrong for wild wolves. Who acts: Science, new evidence, fierce alpha wolves, scientists. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Science, new evidence, fierce alpha wolves, scientists), 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:17 # text = Science changes its mind when new evidence comes, as with the old idea of fierce «alpha» wolves fighting to lead a pack, which scientists later said was wrong for wild wolves. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Science science NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 2 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 6 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 as as ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 16 fierce fierce ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 17 « « ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 alpha alpha NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl 19 » » SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 wolves wolf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 21 fighting fight VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 acl _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 lead lead VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 pack pack NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 28 det _ _ 28 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 29 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 30 advmod _ _ 30 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 ccomp _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 wolves wolf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | present | Science | Science's mind | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | | 2 | **come** | present | new evidence | | | | | as the old idea of fierce alpha wolves | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **fight** | gerund | fierce alpha wolves *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **lead** | to-infinitive | fierce alpha wolves *not said here* | a pack | | | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pack=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | which scientists | | | | | late *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | past | | | | | | for wild wolves; wrong *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **mind** | | Science | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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:264-how-scientists-find-out-naturalists-darwin-the-microscope-and-wildlife-filming.lesson:17`. **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, R8-pos-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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