--- title: The famous picture of a monkey walking step by step into a man is mi… — Evolution myths put right: monkeys, the stronges… · tree and pragmatics description: The famous picture of a monkey walking step by step into a man is misleading too, because evolution is like a bushy tree with many branches, and several kinds of human relatives lived at the same time. Who acts: famous picture, evolution, several kinds, step. 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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 (famous picture, evolution, several kinds, step), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:280-evolution-myths-put-right-monkeys-the-strongest-and-missing-links.lesson:1 # text = The famous picture of a monkey walking step by step into a man is misleading too, because evolution is like a bushy tree with many branches, and several kinds of human relatives lived at the same time. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 280-evolution-myths-put-right-monkeys-the-strongest-and-missing-links.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 monkey monkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 walking walking NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 9 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 into into ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 misleading misleading ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 16 too too ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 18 because because SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 19 evolution evolution NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 21 like like ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 bushy bushy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 advcl _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 branches branch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 30 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 relatives relative NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ _ 35 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 36 at at ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the famous picture of a walking step by step into a man | | | | | misleading *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | evolution | | | | | like a bushy tree; with many branches | tree rules | | 3 | **live** | past | several kinds of human relatives | | | | time | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **step** | | step | | | | | | nom step «act transitive»: by=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:280-evolution-myths-put-right-monkeys-the-strongest-and-missing-links.lesson:1`. **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): R6-punct-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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