--- title: Nobody chooses the change and no animal tries to change: dark moths… — Evolution simply: why living things change over… · tree and pragmatics description: Nobody chooses the change and no animal tries to change: dark moths were simply eaten less often on sooty trees, so more dark moths were left to have young. Who acts: Nobody, animal. 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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 (Nobody, animal), 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:2 # text = Nobody chooses the change and no animal tries to change: dark moths were simply eaten less often on sooty trees, so more dark moths were left to have young. # 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 1 Nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 2 nsubj _ _ 2 chooses choose VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 7 det _ _ 7 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 tries try VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 12 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 moths moth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 15 simply simply ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 17 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 18 advmod _ _ 18 often often ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 sooty sooty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obl 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 24 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 25 advmod _ _ 25 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 moths moth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 27 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 31 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **choose** | present | Nobody | the change | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Theme | | 2 | **try** | present | no animal | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **change** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | no animal *not said here* | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **eat** | past · passive | | dark moths | | sooty trees | | often, simply *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **leave** | past · passive | | dark moths | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 6 | **have** | to-infinitive | | | | | | young *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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. 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