--- title: Evolution has no plan or goal; it is just which living things leave… — Evolution: why giraffes really have long necks · tree and pragmatics description: Evolution has no plan or goal; it is just which living things leave more babies in their time and place, and the result can look designed but happens step by step. Who acts: Evolution, things, result. 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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, things, result), 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:14 # text = Evolution has no plan or goal; it is just which living things leave more babies in their time and place, and the result can look designed but happens step by step. # 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): no change 1 Evolution evolution NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 4 det _ _ 4 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 goal goal NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj:outer _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 10 just just ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 living live VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 13 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 leave leave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 15 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 amod _ _ 16 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 result result NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 parataxis _ _ 28 designed design VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 xcomp _ _ 29 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 happens happen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 31 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 32 by by ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 flat _ _ 34 . . 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 | **have** | present | Evolution | no plan or goal | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Patient | | 2 | **live** | present · progressive | Evolution | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **leave** | present | things | more babies | | | time | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme | | 4 | **look** | can | the result | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **design** | participle | the result *not said here* | | | | | | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **happen** | present | the result *not said here* | step | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:14`. **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): no change. **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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