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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 (Animals, changes, place, ones), 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:3 # text = Animals also cannot choose to evolve: changes in DNA happen by chance, and the place decides which ones last, so the giraffe never wanted a long neck. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 also also ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 choose choose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 evolve evolve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 9 changes change NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 DNA DNA NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 13 by by ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 decides decide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 20 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 21 det _ _ 21 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obj 22 last last VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 giraffe giraffe NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **choose** | can | Animals | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **evolve** | to-infinitive | Animals *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **happen** | infinitive | changes in DNA | | | | | by chance | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by chance=Location | | 4 | **decide** | present | the place | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **last** | present | which ones | | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **not** **want** | past | the giraffe | a long neck | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot neck=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:280-evolution-myths-put-right-monkeys-the-strongest-and-missing-links.lesson:3`. **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): R5-strong ×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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