--- title: Charles Darwin sailed round the world on HMS Beagle from 1831 to 183… — Evolution: why giraffes really have long necks · tree and pragmatics description: Charles Darwin sailed round the world on HMS Beagle from 1831 to 1836 and noticed animals on islands; he collected evidence for about 20 years before publishing On the Origin of Species in 1859. Who acts: Charles. 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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 (Charles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:278-evolution-why-giraffes-really-have-long-necks.lesson:10 # text = Charles Darwin sailed round the world on HMS Beagle from 1831 to 1836 and noticed animals on islands; he collected evidence for about 20 years before publishing On the Origin of Species in 1859. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 278-evolution-why-giraffes-really-have-long-necks.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 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 round round 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 HMS HMS PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 Beagle Beagle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 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 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 15 noticed notice VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 islands island NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 collected collect VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 22 evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 about about ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 27 before before SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 28 publishing publish VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 29 On on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 Origin origin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 Species species PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 34 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 1859 1859 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:nmod 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sail** | past | Charles | | | HMS Beagle | | round the world; from 1831 to 1836 | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent round world=Trajectory | | 2 | **notice** | past | Charles *not said here* | animals | | islands | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus | | 3 | **collect** | past | Charles | evidence | | | year | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evidence=Theme | | 4 | **publish** | gerund | Charles *not said here* | | | the Origin of Species | | in 1859 | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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:278-evolution-why-giraffes-really-have-long-necks.lesson:10`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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