--- title: Over millions of years, living things that fit their world a little… — The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evoluti… · tree and pragmatics description: Over millions of years, living things that fit their world a little better have more young, and slowly new kinds appear, from early fish to dinosaurs, birds, wolves and us. Who acts: living things, new kinds. 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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 (living things, new kinds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:300-the-big-biology-quiz-part-3-dinosaurs-evolution-conservation-and-food.lesson:2 # text = Over millions of years, living things that fit their world a little better have more young, and slowly new kinds appear, from early fish to dinosaurs, birds, wolves and us. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 300-the-big-biology-quiz-part-3-dinosaurs-evolution-conservation-and-food.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): R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Over over ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 6 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:_ 7 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 fit fit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 14 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 9 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJR:Degree=Cmp 15 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 17 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJR:Degree=Cmp 17 young young NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 appear appear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 dinosaurs dinosaur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 wolves wolf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 conj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed hedge=0 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | gerund | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **fit** | present | living things | things's world | | | | well *property* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Patient | | 3 | **have** | present | living things | young | | millions of years | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Patient | | 4 | **appear** | present | new kinds | | | | | from early fish to dinosaurs and birds and wolves | vn appear-48.1.1 «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:300-the-big-biology-quiz-part-3-dinosaurs-evolution-conservation-and-food.lesson:2`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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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