--- title: From one wild cabbage plant, farmers bred cabbage, broccoli, caulifl… — Natural selection we can watch: moths, finches,… · tree and pragmatics description: From one wild cabbage plant, farmers bred cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale and Brussels sprouts, choosing leaves, flowers or buds; they are all the same species. Who acts: farmers. A sentence of the lesson «Natural selection we can watch: moths, finches, germs and tuskless elephants» of the biol --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/279-natural-selection-we-can-watch-moths-finches-germs-and-tuskless-elephants/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Natural selection we can watch: moths,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/279-natural-selection-we-can-watch-moths-finches-germs-and-tuskless-elephants/) / 14 # Natural selection we can watch: moths, finches, germs and tuskless elephants, sentence 14 From one wild cabbage plant, farmers bred cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale and Brussels sprouts, choosing leaves, flowers or buds; they are all the same species. **Who acts:** farmers · **What happens:** breed, choose, be · **To what, where:** cabbage, one wild cabbage plant, leaves, same species This is a sentence of the lesson «Natural selection we can watch: moths, finches, germs and tuskless elephants» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farmers), 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:14 # text = From one wild cabbage plant, farmers bred cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale and Brussels sprouts, choosing leaves, flowers or buds; they are all the same species. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 From from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 3 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 cabbage cabbage NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 bred breed VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 cabbage cabbage NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 broccoli broccoli NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 cauliflower cauliflower NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 kale kale NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 Brussels brussels NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 sprouts sprout NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 choosing choose VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 21 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 buds bud NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 28 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 29 all all ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 species species NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 33 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **breed** | past | farmers | cabbage and broccoli and cauliflower and kale and Brussels sprouts | | one wild cabbage plant | | | tree rules | | 2 | **choose** | gerund | farmers *not said here* | leaves and flowers or buds | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | farmers *= farmer* | the same species | | | | all *property* | tree rules | 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: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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, 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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