Habitats and adaptations, sentence 12
Polar bears have a thick layer of fat and dense fur to keep warm.
Who acts: Polar bears · What happens: have, keep · To what, where: thick layer
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 (Polar bears), 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 | Polar | polar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bears | amod |
| 2 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 layer | det |
| 5 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 layer | amod |
| 6 | layer | layer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 fat | case |
| 8 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 layer | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fur | cc |
| 10 | dense | dense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fur | amod |
| 11 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fat | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 keep | mark |
| 13 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 fur | acl |
| 14 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 keep | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | 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 | have | present | Polar bears | a thick layer of fat and dense fur | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent layer=Patient | ||||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | Polar bears not said here | warm property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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:027-habitats-and-adaptations.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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