What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitting in, sentence 11

A cactus has thick, waxy, spiny stems that store water for the desert, while a water lily has big flat leaves that float on a pond.

Who acts: cactus, thick waxy spiny stems, water lily, big flat leaves · What happens: have, store, float · To what, where: thick waxy spiny stems, water, big flat leaves, pond

This is a sentence of the lesson «What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitting in» 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 (cactus, thick waxy spiny stems, water lily, big flat leaves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cactus	det
2	cactus	cactus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stems	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thick	punct
6	waxy	waxy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stems	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 waxy	punct
8	spiny	spiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stems	amod
9	stems	stem	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 store	nsubj
11	store	store	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 stems	acl:relcl
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 store	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 desert	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 desert	det
15	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 store	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 has	punct
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	21 has	mark
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 lily	det
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lily	compound
20	lily	lily	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 has	nsubj
21	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	advcl
22	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 leaves	amod
23	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 leaves	amod
24	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 has	obj
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 float	nsubj
26	float	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 leaves	acl:relcl
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 pond	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 pond	det
29	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 float	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	a cactus	thick waxy spiny stems			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stem=Patient
2	store	present	thick waxy spiny stems	water		for the desert	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
3	have	present	a water lily	big flat leaves			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient
4	float	present	big flat leaves		a pond		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pond=Trajectory

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, 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:001-what-a-habitat-is.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): R5-strong ×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.

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