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title: Charles Darwin sailed around the world on the Beagle from 1831 to 18… — How scientists find out: naturalists, Darwin, th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Charles Darwin sailed around the world on the Beagle from 1831 to 1836, collecting animals, plants and fossils. Who acts: Charles. 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 with its depe
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# How scientists find out: naturalists, Darwin, the microscope and wildlife filming, sentence 6

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Charles Darwin sailed around the world on the Beagle from 1831 to 1836, collecting animals, plants and fossils.

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**Who acts:** Charles · **What happens:** sail, collect · **To what, where:** world, animals

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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 (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:6
# text = Charles Darwin sailed around the world on the Beagle from 1831 to 1836, collecting animals, plants and fossils.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Darwin	Darwin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	around	around	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Beagle	Beagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	1831	1831	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	1836	1836	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	collecting	collect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
16	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	fossils	fossil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **sail** | past | Charles |  |  | the world |  | on the Beagle; from 1831 to 1836 | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around world=Trajectory |
| 2 | **collect** | gerund | Charles *not said here* | animals and plants and fossils |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme |

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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): 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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