--- title: Living things change very slowly over a great many generations: the… — The real animals of the Just So Stories: the wha… · tree and pragmatics description: Living things change very slowly over a great many generations: the young that are born a little better suited to their life survive more often and pass that on to their own young. Who acts: Living things. A sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, le --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The real animals of the Just So Storie…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab/) / 3 # The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab, sentence 3 Living things change very slowly over a great many generations: the young that are born a little better suited to their life survive more often and pass that on to their own young. **Who acts:** Living things · **What happens:** change, bear, survive, pass on · **To what, where:** great many generations, young, that, own young This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab» 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 (Living things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab.lesson:3 # text = Living things change very slowly over a great many generations: the young that are born a little better suited to their life survive more often and pass that on to their own young. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Living living ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 6 over over ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 generations generation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 young young NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl:relcl _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 19 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 20 advmod _ _ 20 suited suit ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 survive survive VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 25 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 26 advmod _ _ 26 often often ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 pass pass VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 29 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 obj _ _ 30 on on ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 young young NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | present | Living things | | | | over a great many generations | slowly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **bear** | present · passive | | the young | | | | suit *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **survive** | present · passive | | the young | | | | often *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Circumstance | | 4 | **pass on** | present | | that | | young's own young | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent that=Theme to young=Destination | 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:404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab.lesson:3`. **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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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