--- title: Evolution is supported by fossils, by DNA and by changes we can watc… — Evolution myths put right: monkeys, the stronges… · tree and pragmatics description: Evolution is supported by fossils, by DNA and by changes we can watch happening today. Who acts: fossils, we, changes. 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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 (fossils, we, changes), 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:9 # text = Evolution is supported by fossils, by DNA and by changes we can watch happening today. # 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): no change 1 Evolution evolution NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 supported support VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 by by ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 fossils fossil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl:agent _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 DNA DNA NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 changes change NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 12 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 acl:relcl _ _ 15 happening happen VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 xcomp _ _ 16 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl:unmarked _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **support** | present · passive | fossils and DNA and changes | Evolution | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus | | 2 | **watch** | can | we | changes *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **happen** | gerund | changes *not said here* | | | | today | | vn occur-48.3-1 «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:9`. **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): no change. **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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