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title: People did not come from today's monkeys or chimps; we share common… — Evolution myths put right: monkeys, the stronges… · tree and pragmatics
description: People did not come from today's monkeys or chimps; we share common ancestors with them, and chimps have been evolving for exactly as long as we have. Who acts: People, we, chimps. A sentence of the lesson «Evolution myths put right: monkeys, the strongest and missing links» of the biology course of
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# Evolution myths put right: monkeys, the strongest and missing links, sentence 5

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People did not come from today's monkeys or chimps; we share common ancestors with them, and chimps have been evolving for exactly as long as we have.

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**Who acts:** People, we, chimps · **What happens:** not come, share, evolve, have · **To what, where:** common ancestors

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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 (People, we, chimps), 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:5
# text = People did not come from today's monkeys or chimps; we share common ancestors with them, and chimps have been evolving for exactly as long as we have.
# 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
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	chimps	chimp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	share	share	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	chimps	chimp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	aux	_	_
23	evolving	evolve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	as	as	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	obl	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **come** | past · do-support | People |  |  |  |  | from today's monkeys or chimps | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from monkey=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **share** | present | we | common ancestors |  |  |  | with People | tree rules |
| 3 | **evolve** | present · perfect · progressive | chimps |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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:5`.

**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. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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