What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitting in, sentence 2

Every living thing is fitted to its own habitat, so a cactus is built for dry sand and a water lily for a still pond, and swapping them would kill both.

Who acts: swapping · What happens: fit, build, swap, kill · To what, where: living thing, own habitat, cactus, sand, both

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 (swapping), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 thing	det
2	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thing	compound
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fitted	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fitted	aux:pass
5	fitted	fit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 habitat	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 habitat	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 habitat	amod
9	habitat	habitat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fitted	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 built	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	15 built	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cactus	det
13	cactus	cactus	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 built	nsubj:pass
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 built	aux:pass
15	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 fitted	parataxis
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 sand	case
17	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sand	amod
18	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 built	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 lily	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 lily	det
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lily	compound
22	lily	lily	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sand	conj
23	for	for	ADP	_	26 pond	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 pond	det
25	still	still	ADV	_	26 pond	advmod
26	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lily	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 kill	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 kill	cc
29	swapping	swap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 kill	csubj
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 swapping	obj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 kill	aux
32	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fitted	conj
33	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	32 kill	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fitted	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fit	present · passive		every living thing	to thing's own habitat goal	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to habitat=Goal
2	build	present · passive		a cactus	for dry sand and a water lily for a pond	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for sand=Asset
3	swap	gerund		sand		vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	kill	would	swapping	both		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=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, 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:2.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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.

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