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title: Humans and chimpanzees share a common ancestor from about 6 to 7 mil… — Evolution simply: why living things change over… · tree and pragmatics
description: Humans and chimpanzees share a common ancestor from about 6 to 7 million years ago, so they are cousins; humans did not come from today's chimps. Who acts: Humans. A sentence of the lesson «Evolution simply: why living things change over many generations» of the biology course of Mova's primary scho
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# Evolution simply: why living things change over many generations, sentence 11

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Humans and chimpanzees share a common ancestor from about 6 to 7 million years ago, so they are cousins; humans did not come from today's chimps.

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**Who acts:** Humans · **What happens:** share, be, not come · **To what, where:** common ancestor, 6, cousins, chimps

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Evolution simply: why living things change over many generations» 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 (Humans), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:073-evolution-simply.lesson:11
# text = Humans and chimpanzees share a common ancestor from about 6 to 7 million years ago, so they are cousins; humans did not come from today's chimps.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 073-evolution-simply.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
1	Humans	human	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	chimpanzees	chimpanzee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	share	share	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	ancestor	ancestor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nmod	_	_
13	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	cousins	cousin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
22	humans	human	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
23	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	chimps	chimp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
30	.	.	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 | **share** | present | Humans and chimpanzees | a common ancestor |  | 6 to 7 |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Humans *= human* | cousins |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **come** | past · do-support | humans |  |  | today's chimps |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from chimp=Initial\_Location |

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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:073-evolution-simply.lesson:11`.

**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. **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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