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title: When a Pokémon evolves, one creature changes in its life, which is l… — Evolution myths put right: monkeys, the stronges… · tree and pragmatics
description: When a Pokémon evolves, one creature changes in its life, which is like metamorphosis or growing up, not evolution; real evolution happens to groups over generations. Who acts: Pokémon, one creature, life, real evolution. A sentence of the lesson «Evolution myths put right: monkeys, the strongest an
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# Evolution myths put right: monkeys, the strongest and missing links, sentence 13

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When a Pokémon evolves, one creature changes in its life, which is like metamorphosis or growing up, not evolution; real evolution happens to groups over generations.

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**Who acts:** Pokémon, one creature, life, real evolution · **What happens:** evolve, change, be, grow up, happen · **To what, where:** life

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Evolution myths put right: monkeys, the strongest and missing links» 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 (Pokémon, one creature, life, real evolution), 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:13
# text = When a Pokémon evolves, one creature changes in its life, which is like metamorphosis or growing up, not evolution; real evolution happens to groups over generations.
# 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 ×1
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Pokémon	Pokémon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	evolves	evolve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	changes	change	VERB	NNS	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	metamorphosis	metamorphosis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	acl:relcl	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	conj	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	evolution	evolution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	evolution	evolution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
29	over	over	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **evolve** | present | a Pokémon |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **change** |  | one creature |  |  | creature's life |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | creature's life |  |  |  |  | like metamorphosis and evolution | tree rules |
| 4 | **grow up** | gerund | creature's life *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **happen** | present | real evolution |  |  |  |  | to groups over generations | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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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