Climate zones, sentence 12
Plants and animals are adapted to their climate, like polar bears to the Arctic and camels to the desert.
Who acts: Plants · What happens: adapt, acclimate · To what, where: Plants, climate
This is a sentence of the lesson «Climate zones» of the world 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 (Plants), 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 | Plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 adapted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 animals | cc |
| 3 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Plants | conj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 adapted | aux:pass |
| 5 | adapted | adapt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 climate | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 climate | nmod:poss |
| 8 | climate | climate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 adapted | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bears | punct |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 bears | case |
| 11 | polar | polar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bears | amod |
| 12 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 adapted | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Arctic | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Arctic | det |
| 15 | Arctic | Arctic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 bears | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 camels | cc |
| 17 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 bears | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 desert | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 desert | det |
| 20 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bears | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 adapted | punct |
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 | adapt | present · passive | Plants and animals | to Plants's climate goal; like polar bears to the Arctic to the desert and camels | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to climate=Goal | ||||
| 2 | acclimate | Plants = plant | nom climate «state intransitive»: poss=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, 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:world:016-climate-zones.lesson:12.
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): no change. 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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