--- title: The famous picture of a line of apes turning into a man is misleadin… — Evolution myths put right: monkeys, the stronges… · tree and pragmatics description: The famous picture of a line of apes turning into a man is misleading: evolution is a branching bush, not a ladder, and many human relatives lived at the same time. Who acts: famous picture, evolution, many human relatives. 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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 (famous picture, evolution, many human relatives), 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:7 # text = The famous picture of a line of apes turning into a man is misleading: evolution is a branching bush, not a ladder, and many human relatives lived at the same time. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 apes ape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 9 turning turn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 10 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 misleading misleading ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 16 evolution evolution NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 branching branching NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 bush bush NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 parataxis _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 ladder ladder NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 relatives relative NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 31 at at ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | gerund | the famous picture of a line of apes *not said here* | | | | | into a man *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into man=Result | | 2 | **is** | present | the famous picture of a line of apes | | | | | misleading *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | evolution | a branching bush and a ladder | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **live** | past | many human relatives | | | | time | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:7`. **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): R6-punct-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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