--- title: And Pokémon do not evolve in the science sense: one creature changin… — Evolution myths put right: monkeys, the stronges… · tree and pragmatics description: And Pokémon do not evolve in the science sense: one creature changing in its own life is growing up, like a caterpillar becoming a butterfly, while evolution happens to whole groups over many generations. Who acts: Pokémon, one creature, caterpillar, evolution. 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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 (Pokémon, one creature, caterpillar, 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:4 # text = And Pokémon do not evolve in the science sense: one creature changing in its own life is growing up, like a caterpillar becoming a butterfly, while evolution happens to whole groups over many 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 Pokémon Pokémon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 evolve evolve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 science science NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 sense sense NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 13 changing change VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 acl _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 parataxis _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 like like ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 caterpillar caterpillar NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 25 becoming become VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 acl _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 butterfly butterfly NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:obj 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 while while SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 evolution evolution NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 happens happen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advcl 32 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 35 over over ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 generations generation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl:unmarked _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **evolve** | present · do-support | Pokémon | | | the science sense | | like a caterpillar | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sense=Location | | 2 | **change** | gerund | one creature *not said here* | | | creature's own life | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **grow up** | present · progressive | one creature | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **become** | gerund | a caterpillar *not said here* | a butterfly | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **happen** | present | evolution | | | | over many generations | to whole groups | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over generation=Location | 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:4`. **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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