--- title: Natural selection is usually slow, but sometimes we can watch it hap… — Natural selection we can watch: moths, finches,… · tree and pragmatics description: Natural selection is usually slow, but sometimes we can watch it happen within a few years or decades, like a film on fast-forward. Who acts: Natural selection, we, selection. 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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 (Natural selection, we, selection), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:279-natural-selection-we-can-watch-moths-finches-germs-and-tuskless-elephants.lesson:0 # text = Natural selection is usually slow, but sometimes we can watch it happen within a few years or decades, like a film on fast-forward. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 279-natural-selection-we-can-watch-moths-finches-germs-and-tuskless-elephants.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Natural natural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 selection selection NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 usually usually ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 8 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 11 advmod _ _ 9 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 within within ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 decades decade NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 like like ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 parataxis _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ _ 27 forward forward ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Natural selection | | | | | slow, usually *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **watch** | can | we | selection | | | | sometimes *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **happen** | infinitive | selection *not said here* | | | | year | | 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:279-natural-selection-we-can-watch-moths-finches-germs-and-tuskless-elephants.lesson:0`. **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): R7-rel-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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