--- title: Charles Darwin sailed on HMS Beagle from 1831 to 1836 and gathered e… — Evolution simply: why living things change over… · tree and pragmatics description: Charles Darwin sailed on HMS Beagle from 1831 to 1836 and gathered evidence for over 20 years before he published On the Origin of Species in 1859; Alfred Russel Wallace found the same idea on his own, and both were presented together in 1858. Who acts: Charles, Alfred Russel. 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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 (Charles, Alfred Russel), 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:14 # text = Charles Darwin sailed on HMS Beagle from 1831 to 1836 and gathered evidence for over 20 years before he published On the Origin of Species in 1859; Alfred Russel Wallace found the same idea on his own, and both were presented together in 1858. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Charles Charles PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Darwin Darwin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 sailed sail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 HMS HMS PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 Beagle Beagle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 1831 1831 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 obl _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 1836 1836 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 gathered gather VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 over over ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 18 before before SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 published publish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 21 On on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 Origin origin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Species species PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 1859 1859 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 obl _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 Alfred Alfred PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 Russel Russel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 31 Wallace Wallace PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 appos _ _ 32 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 36 on on ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 obl _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 41 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 43 nsubj:pass _ _ 42 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux:pass _ _ 43 presented present VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 44 together together ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 45 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 1858 1858 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 43 obl _ _ 47 . . 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 | **sail** | past | Charles | | | HMS Beagle | | from 1831 to 1836 | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from 1831=Trajectory | | 2 | **gather** | past | Charles *not said here* | evidence | | | year | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evidence=Theme | | 3 | **publish** | past | Charles | | | the Origin of Species | | in 1859 | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **find** | past | Alfred Russel | the same idea | | Russel's own | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Topic | | 5 | **present** | past · passive | | both | | 1858 | | together *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:073-evolution-simply.lesson:14`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Evolution simply: why living things ch…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/73-evolution-simply/13/) - next →: [Evolution simply: why living things ch…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/73-evolution-simply/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/73-evolution-simply/)