--- title: In 1809 Jean-Baptiste Lamarck suggested that animals pass on body ch… — Evolution: why giraffes really have long necks · tree and pragmatics description: In 1809 Jean-Baptiste Lamarck suggested that animals pass on body changes they gained by using them, such as a stretched neck; this is wrong, because stretching does not change the DNA passed on. Who acts: Jean Baptiste Lamarck, animals, this, stretching. 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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 (Jean Baptiste Lamarck, animals, this, stretching), 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:5 # text = In 1809 Jean-Baptiste Lamarck suggested that animals pass on body changes they gained by using them, such as a stretched neck; this is wrong, because stretching does not change the DNA passed on. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×3 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1809 1809 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:obl|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 3 Jean Jean PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 5 Baptiste Baptiste PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ _ 6 Lamarck Lamarck PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 suggested suggest VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 pass pass VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 changes change NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 gained gain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 by by SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 17 using use VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 20 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 24 case _ _ 21 as as ADP IN _ 20 fixed _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 stretched stretch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 amod _ _ 24 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 26 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 parataxis _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 because because SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 31 stretching stretch NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 DNA DNA NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl _ _ 38 on on ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | past | Jean Baptiste Lamarck | | | 1809 | | | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **pass** | present | animals | | | body changes such a stretched neck | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on change=Location | | 3 | **gain** | past | animals *= animal* | body changes such a stretched neck *not said here* | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Theme | | 4 | **use** | gerund | animals *= animal* *not said here* | animals *= animal* | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 5 | **stretch** | participle | | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **is** | present | this | | | | | wrong *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **change** | present · do-support | stretching | the DNA | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dna=Patient | | 8 | **pass on** | past | the DNA *not said here* | | | | | | vn send-11.1 «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. 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