--- title: Darwin's finches on the Galapagos Islands have beaks suited to their… — Evolution simply: why living things change over… · tree and pragmatics description: Darwin's finches on the Galapagos Islands have beaks suited to their food, and Peter and Rosemary Grant saw the average beak size change within a few years after a drought in 1977. Who acts: finches, Peter. 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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 (finches, Peter), 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:6 # text = Darwin's finches on the Galapagos Islands have beaks suited to their food, and Peter and Rosemary Grant saw the average beak size change within a few years after a drought in 1977. # 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 Darwin Darwin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 finches finch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 Galapagos Galapagos PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 Islands Islands PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 8 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 beaks beak NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 suited suit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 16 Peter Peter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 Rosemary Rosemary PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 Grant Grant PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 flat _ _ 20 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 22 average average ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 23 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 26 within within ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 30 after after ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 drought drought NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 1977 1977 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obl 35 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Darwin's finches on the Galapagos Islands | beaks | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beak=Patient | | 2 | **suit** | participle | | beaks *not said here* | | | | to finches's food | tree rules | | 3 | **see** | past | Peter and Rosemary | the average size change | | | within a few years; after a drought in 1977 | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer change=Stimulus | 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:6`. **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. **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…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/73-evolution-simply/5/) - next →: [Evolution simply: why living things ch…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/73-evolution-simply/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/73-evolution-simply/)