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title: In the Galapagos Islands, Darwin noticed that animals on different i… — How scientists find out: naturalists, Darwin, th… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the Galapagos Islands, Darwin noticed that animals on different islands were slightly different, and he published his famous book in 1859, after more than 20 years of work, because his idea was very surprising and he wanted plenty of careful evidence first. Who acts: Darwin, animals, idea. A sent
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# How scientists find out: naturalists, Darwin, the microscope and wildlife filming, sentence 7

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In the Galapagos Islands, Darwin noticed that animals on different islands were slightly different, and he published his famous book in 1859, after more than 20 years of work, because his idea was very surprising and he wanted plenty of careful evidence first.

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**Who acts:** Darwin, animals, idea · **What happens:** notice, be, publish, want · **To what, where:** Galapagos Islands, famous book, 1859, plenty · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Darwin, animals, idea), 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:7
# text = In the Galapagos Islands, Darwin noticed that animals on different islands were slightly different, and he published his famous book in 1859, after more than 20 years of work, because his idea was very surprising and he wanted plenty of careful evidence first.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Galapagos	Galapagos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	Darwin	Darwin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
9	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	slightly	slightly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	published	publish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	1859	1859	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	after	after	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	29	advmod	_	_
28	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	fixed	_	_
29	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
34	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
38	very	very	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	surprising	surprising	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	advcl	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
43	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
47	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	42	advmod	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4: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 | **notice** | past | Darwin |  |  | the Galapagos Islands |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | animals on different islands |  |  |  |  | different, slightly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **publish** | past | Darwin | Darwin's famous book |  | 1859 | year |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Result |
| 4 | **is** | past | Darwin's idea |  |  |  |  | surprising *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **want** | past | Darwin | plenty of careful evidence |  |  |  | first *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot plenty=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): R6-punct-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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