--- title: Thousands of in-between fossils are known, such as Tiktaalik, Archae… — Evolution myths put right: monkeys, the stronges… · tree and pragmatics description: Thousands of in-between fossils are known, such as Tiktaalik, Archaeopteryx and early whales; scientists joke that every new fossil fills one gap but makes two smaller ones. Who acts: scientists, new fossil. 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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 (scientists, new fossil), 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:12 # text = Thousands of in-between fossils are known, such as Tiktaalik, Archaeopteryx and early whales; scientists joke that every new fossil fills one gap but makes two smaller ones. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 6 amod _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 5 between between ADP IN _ 3 fixed _ _ 6 fossils fossil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 12 case _ _ 11 as as ADP IN _ 10 fixed _ _ 12 Tiktaalik Tiktaalik PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 Archaeopteryx Archaeopteryx PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 whales whale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 19 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 joke joke VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 21 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 24 det _ _ 23 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 fossil fossil NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:compound 25 fills fill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ _ 26 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 gap gap NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 30 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 31 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 32 amod _ _ 32 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 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 | **know** | present · passive | | Thousands of in fossils | | | | such Tiktaalik and Archaeopteryx and early whales | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | | 2 | **joke** *speech: other* | present | scientists | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **fill** | present | every new fossil | one gap | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent gap=Patient | | 4 | **make** | present | every new fossil *not said here* | two smaller ones | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=Product | 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:12`. **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 ×2. **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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