--- title: Evolution means fitting the place you live, not getting better in ge… — Evolution: why giraffes really have long necks · tree and pragmatics description: Evolution means fitting the place you live, not getting better in general; a fish is not worse than a person, it is fitted to water, and if the place changes, the best fit changes too. Who acts: Evolution, you, fish, place. 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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 (Evolution, you, fish, place), 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:12 # text = Evolution means fitting the place you live, not getting better in general; a fish is not worse than a person, it is fitted to water, and if the place changes, the best fit changes too. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Evolution evolution NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 fitting fit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 conj _ _ 11 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 xcomp _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 general general ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 20 than than ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 fitted fit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 31 if if SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:det 33 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 advcl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 38 amod _ _ 38 fit fit NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 40 too too ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 41 . . 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 | **mean** | present | Evolution | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **fit** *not said to happen* | gerund | Evolution *not said here* | the place | | | | | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient | | 3 | **live** | present | you | the place *not said here* | | | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme place=Location | | 4 | **not** **get** | gerund | Evolution *not said here* | | | | | good *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **not** **is** | present | a fish | | | | | than a person; bad *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **fit** | present · passive | | fish | | | | to water *goal* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to water=Goal | | 7 | **change** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the place | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **change** | present | the best fit | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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:12`. **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, R7-rel-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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