Habitats and adaptations, sentence 10
Cacti store water in thick stems and have spines instead of broad leaves.
Who acts: Cacti · What happens: store, have · To what, where: water, thick stems, spines
This is a sentence of the lesson «Habitats and adaptations» 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 (Cacti), 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 | Cacti | cactus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 store | nsubj |
| 2 | store | store | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 store | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 stems | case |
| 5 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stems | amod |
| 6 | stems | stem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 store | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 have | cc |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 store | conj |
| 9 | spines | spine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 have | obj |
| 10 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 13 leaves | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 instead | fixed |
| 12 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 leaves | amod |
| 13 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 have | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 store | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | store | present | Cacti | water | thick stems | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Theme in stem=Location | |||
| 2 | have | present | Cacti not said here | spines | instead broad leaves | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spine=Patient |
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:027-habitats-and-adaptations.lesson:10.
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, R6-punct-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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